Ritual Bundle | Yale University Art Gallery

early 20th century

Medium: Antelope horns, metal, hide, wood, cowrie shells, fiber, and encrustation
Dimensions: 16 3/4 × 6 1/8 × 9 in. (42.55 × 15.56 × 22.86 cm)
Credit Line: Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
Accession Number: 2006.51.477
Geography: Republic of Benin
Culture: Fon
Period: 20th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Purchased Sotheby's, New York, May 16, 1985
Charles B. Benenson Collection, donated to Yale University Art Gallery in 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), 276, ill.

"Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006): 222.

Richard Barnes, "Objects of Desire," Yale Alumni Magazine (September/October 2004): 36, ill.

Sotheby's, New York, African and Oceanic Art, sale cat. (May 16, 1985), lot 151, ill.

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

sculpture

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