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ClassificationsAfrican Art

Male Figure

Possible OriginCameroon, Africa

Possible OriginNigeria, Africa

CultureMambila

MediumWood

Credit LineEx coll. William S. Arnett

Dimensions20 7/8 x 7 1/2 x 7 5/16 in. (53 x 19 x 18.5 cm)

Object number1999.003.018

Exhibition HistoryCameroon: An Exhibition of African Art from the Collection of William and Robert Arnett, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, January 16 - March 20, 1977
Three Rivers of Nigeria: Art of the Lower Niger, Cross, and Benue from the Collection of William and Robert Arnett, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1978
Nigerian Sculpture: Bridges to Power, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, April 15 - June 3, 1984
Published ReferencesMarcilene K. Wittmer, Cameroon: An Exhibition of African Art from the Collection of William and Robert Arnett (Charlotte, NC: Mint Museum, 1977), 52, number 85.
Marcilene K. Wittmer and William Arnett, Three Rivers of Nigeria: Art of the Lower Niger, Cross and Benue (Atlanta: The High Museum of Art, 1978), 85, number 204.
Ellen F. Elsas, Nigerian Sculpture: Bridges to Power (Birmingham: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1984), 60, number 95.

ProvenanceEx coll. William S. Arnett (1939-2020), Atlanta, Georgia, by 1977.

Status

Not on view

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