Comb with a Mother and Child

late 19th–early 20th century

African Art

On view, 1st floor, African Art
Medium

Wood

Dimensions

7 7/8 × 1 9/16 × 1 3/8 in. (20 × 4 × 3.5 cm)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2006.51.78

Geography

Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Angola

Culture

Yaka

Period

19th–20th century

Classification

Apparel/Costume

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Philippe Guimiot, Brussels, to June 28, 1982; Charles B. Benenson Collection, Greenwich, Conn, 1982–2004; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Arthur Bourgeois, Yaka (Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2014), 119, fig. 8
  • 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), 115, ill
  • "Acquisitions, July 1, 2006–June 30, 2007," in "Japanese Art at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007), 4, ill
  • "Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," in "Photography at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006), 222
  • Frederick John Lamp, "Charles Benenson and His Legacy of African Art to Yale," in "Recent Acquisitions 2001–2003," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004), 26, 40, ill
  • Susan Vogel and Jerry L. Thompson, Closeup: Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Sculpture from an American Collection and the Horstmann Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Museum for African Art, 1990), 173, fig. 104
  • Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), 410, fig. 1042
  • Roger Vokaer, La maternité dans les arts premiers/Het Moederschap in de Primitive Kunsten, exh. cat. (Brussels: Société Generale de Banque, 1977), 67, no. 58
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
Additional information

Object/Work type

clothing, combs (grooming tools)

Subject

children (people by age group) mothers

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