Truncated Figure on a Spike | Yale University Art Gallery

early to mid-20th century

Medium: Wood
Dimensions: 8 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 1 1/4 in. (21.59 × 3.81 × 3.175 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Thomas M. Osborn for the Linton Collection of African Art
Accession Number: 2004.77.6
Geography: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Period: 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., 2004

Note 1: Ralph Linton was the Sterling Professor of Anthropology at Yale from 1946 until his death in 1953.

Bibliography

"Acquisitions 2004," in "African Art at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2005), 139

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Object/Work type

figures (representations)

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