Object Details
- Description
- Seated female figures on a rectangular socle with their backs to one another; legs hanging down with each placing their hands on their thighs. Their coiffures are striated incisions and one figure's coiffure is divided into four parts while the other's is divided into five parts. The figure with the four-part coiffure has 3 keloids on her forehead. They both wear necklaces.
- Provenance
- J. J. Klejman, New York, -- to mid 1960s
- John A. Friede, New York, mid 1960s to 1986
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Baule artist
- Date
- Early-mid 20th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Evelyn A.J. Hall and John A. Friede
- Medium
- Wood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 22.9 x 19.1 x 12.1 cm (9 x 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Figure
