Female Figure (Biiga) Artist: Zimwomdya Koudougou (Bonam village, died early 1970s)

late 19th–early 20th century

African Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Wood, glass beads, string, and pigment

Dimensions

13 × 2 3/16 × 4 5/16 in. (33 × 5.5 × 11 cm)

Credit Line

Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection

Accession Number

2006.51.1

Geography

Bonam, Sahel, Burkina Faso

Culture

Mossi

Period

19th–20th century

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Wright Gallery (William Wright), New York; Charles B. Benenson (1913–2004), Greenwich, Conn., bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2004
Bibliography
  • Frederick John Lamp, Amanda Maples, and Laura M. Smalligan, Accumulating Histories: African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012), 82–83, ill.
  • "Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006): 222.
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations)

Subject

women

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