Female Figure

late 19th–early 20th century

African Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Wood and porcelain

Dimensions

7 × 2 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (17.78 × 6.35 × 6.35 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Thomas M. Osborn for the Linton Collection of African Art

Accession Number

1980.113.2

Geography

Republic of the Congo

Culture

Bembe

Period

19th–20th century

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Dr. Ralph Linton (1893–1953), by 1953 [see note 1]; by descent to his wife, Adelin Hohlfield Linton (1899–1977); sold to Marie-Louise Montgomery Osborn (1905–1968) and James Marshall Osborn (1906–1976), 1954; by descent to Thomas M.Osborn; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.,1980

Note 1: Ralph Linton was the Sterling Professor of Anthropology at Yale from 1946 until his death in 1953.
Bibliography
  • Frederick John Lamp, "African Art at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2005),
  • Robert Farris Thompson, "Icons for the Brave and Generous: Kongo Art at Yale," in "African Art at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2005), 82–83, fig. 2
  • Robert Farris Thompson, Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American art and philosophy (New York: Random House, 1983), 125, fig. plate 74
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations)

Subject

women

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