Object Details
- Description
- Spoon with large oval bowl; head with mask-like face, incised band with white pigment around slit eyes; three white metal teeth.
- Provenance
- Seymour Levenson, Charlottesville, VA, -- to 1974
- Exhibition History
- Y'a Nene: The Aesthetics of 'Sweetness' in African Art, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, January 16-March 28, 1999
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Dan artist
- Date
- Early-late 20th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Seymour Levenson
- Medium
- Wood, pigment, metal
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 10.1 x 59.2 x 14.4 cm (4 x 23 5/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
