id:			110791
accession number:	1929.321
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.321
updated:		2025-05-01 11:03:30.828000

Vessel in the Form of a Woman's Head, by 1928. Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Niangara area, northern Mangbetu-style potter. Terracotta; diameter: 30 x 14.6 x 22.1 cm (11 13/16 x 5 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.); overall: 31.2 cm (12 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Gilpin Players of Karamu House, 1929.321

title:				Vessel in the Form of a Woman's Head
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creation date:			by 1928
creation date earliest:		1928
creation date latest:		1928
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creditline:			Gift of the Gilpin Players of Karamu House
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culture:	Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Niangara area, northern Mangbetu-style potter
technique:	Terracotta
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Vessels
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measurements: Diameter: 30 x 14.6 x 22.1 cm (11 13/16 x 5 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.); Overall: 31.2 cm (12 5/16 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	Acquired by Paul Travis on behalf of the African Art Sponsors and the Gilpin Players in Ekibondo, Democratic Republic of the Congo (then-Belgian Congo)
	date: 1928
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			* <div><!--block-->Boger, Ann C. et al. <em>Paul B. Travis Africa 1927-1928</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. PP. 32–35, 47.&nbsp;</div>
			
			* <div><!--block-->It appears on a checklist of "African Material" circa 1928 as "1 earthenware jar made in likeness of Mangbettu women with elongated head and headdress. Mangebettu, Ekibondis Village." Archives of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.</div>
			
			
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	The African Art Sponsors and the Gilpin Players
	date: 1928
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			* <div><!--block-->12/3/1928 letter to the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History from Hazel Mountain Walker (Gilpin Players, president) and Harry E. Davis (African Art Sponsors, president) reproduced on p. 54 of Adams, Henry et al. <em>Paul Travis 1891-1975</em>. Cleveland Artists Foundation, 2001.</div>
			
			
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift
	date: 1929–
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CITATIONS

	Boger, Ann C. et al. Paul B. Travis Africa 1927-1928. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. p. 36.
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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: p. 16; reproduced, p. 18, fig. 4
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/3335296

	Petridis, Constantijn, et al. <em>Fragments of the Invisible: The René and Odette Delenne Collection of Congo Sculpture.</em> Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Museum of art ; Milan : 5 Continents Editions, 2013.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 107
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