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Lintel

Object Number:AF5118
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Bamileke
Provenience: Cameroon
Grasslands
Section:African
Materials:Wood
Credit Line:Purchased from Vignier, 1919

Description

Wooden lintel depicting six monkeys. From a chief's hut.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

African Negro Sculpture (1957 - 1957) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Catalogue] Fleckner, Uwe. 2008. The Invention of the 20th Century: Carl Einstein and the Avant-Gardes.. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 68-69View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Plass, Margaret B. Dec 1957. "African Negro Sculpture: A Walk Through the Gallery". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 21. no. 4. pg. 5-76 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 55View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue] Plass, Margaret B. 1956. African Tribal Sculpture.. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 39View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Hall, Henry U. 1923. "Notes on Some Congo and West African Woodcarvings". The Museum Journal. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 14. no. 2. pg. 101-134 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 128-130, 132, fig. 32-34View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] Curnow, Kathy. 2014. At Home In Africa: Design, Beauty and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings.. Cleveland. The Galleries at Cleveland State University. pg. 286 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 233, fig. 14-6View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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