id:			94894
accession number:	1915.453
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.453
updated:		2025-02-08 22:14:34.140000

Comb (cisakulo), mid- to late 1800s. Africa, Central Africa, Angola, or Democratic Republic of Congo, Chokwe-style. Wood, glass beads, and natural fibers; overall: 13.3 x 8 x 1.4 cm (5 1/4 x 3 1/8 x 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Harold T. Clark Educational Extension Fund 1915.453

title:				Comb (cisakulo)
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creation date:			mid- to late 1800s
creation date earliest:		1850
creation date latest:		1899
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creditline:			The Harold T. Clark Educational Extension Fund
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culture:	Africa, Central Africa, Angola, or Democratic Republic of Congo, Chokwe-style
technique:	Wood, glass beads, and natural fibers
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Jewelry
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measurements: Overall: 13.3 x 8 x 1.4 cm (5 1/4 x 3 1/8 x 9/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Language of Beauty in African Art
	opening date:   2022-04-03T04:00:00
	<i>The Language of Beauty in African Art</i>. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (April 3-July 31, 2022) https://kimbellart.org/exhibition/language-beauty-african-art; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (November 20, 2022-February 27, 2023) https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9344/the-language-of-beauty-in-african-art.

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(F. M. Rapp, probably by field collection in Portuguese West Africa (Angola) or Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: by 1915
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			* <div><!--block-->"In the spring of 1916, Mr. F. M. Rapp, mining engineer, now at Tonopah, Nevada, returned from the Belgian Congo, Central Africa, where he has been engaged for two years in geological work along the Kasai River and its tributaries."<br>M. G. Edwards, "Diamond-bearing gravel from Belgian Congo,"<em> American Mineralogist </em>(1917) 2 (7): 88–89.</div>
			
			
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1915-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Petridis, Constantine. "A New Installation for African Art in Cleveland." Tribal 3, no. 36 (Autumn/Winter 2004): 68-73.
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	Wixom, WIlliam D. "African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art." <em>African Arts</em>. 10, no. 3. (April 1977) 16-25.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p.16, fig. 1
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/3335296

	Donley, Gregory M., "A New Face for African Art", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 42 no. 04, April 2002
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6-7
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2002-04/page/n5

	Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. 34, p. 98 - 99
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	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 40-41
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	Rondeau, James, Constantijn Petridis, Yaëlle Biro, Herbert M. Cole, Kassim Kone, Babatunde Lawal, Wilfried Van Damme, and Susan Mullin Vogel.<em> The language of beauty in African art.</em> 2022.
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IMAGES

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