Object Details
- Label Text
- The contents of gourds filled with palm wine or water would have been safeguarded through the use of these functional, decorative stoppers shaped as human heads and half-figures. The distinct, concave faces atop these wooden implements suggest the influence of the carving style of the neighboring Pende peoples.
- Description
- Stopper
- Provenance
- Paul and Ruth Tishman, New York, before 1981 to 1984
- Exhibition History
- Healing Arts, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., September 2016 - June 26, 2019
- General exhibition, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., March 1, 2015-August 24, 2016
- The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection Highlights, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May 21, 2009-June 4, 2014
- Echoes of Africa, Epcot, Walt Disney World, Orlando, September 2005-August 2007
- For Spirits and Kings: African Art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1981
- Published References
- Vogel, Susan (ed). 1981. For Spirits and Kings: African Art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 228, no. 140.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Wongo artist
- Date
- 19th-20th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Walt Disney World Co., a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company
- Medium
- Wood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 23.5 x 2.4 x 2.5 cm (9 1/4 x 15/16 x 1 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
