id: 115161
accession number: 1935.308
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1935.308
updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:27.347000
Knife-sheath tip (sika boha), 1800s. Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Asante Empire/Kingdom, Kumasi or probably Kumasi, member of the goldsmiths' guild. Gold; overall: 6.9 cm (2 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1935.308
title: Knife-sheath tip (sika boha)
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creation date: 1800s
creation date earliest: 1800
creation date latest: 1896
current location: 108C Akan & Yoruba
creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture: Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Asante Empire/Kingdom, Kumasi or probably Kumasi, member of the goldsmiths' guild
technique: Gold
department: African Art
collection: African Art
type: Arms and Armor
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measurements: Overall: 6.9 cm (2 11/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
title: Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art
opening date: 2000-02-01T00:00:00
Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (February 1-September 3, 2000).
title: The Power of Gold: Asante Royal Regalia from Ghana
opening date: 2018-04-15T04:00:00
The Power of Gold: Asante Royal Regalia from Ghana. The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (organizer) (April 15-August 12, 2018).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1935: "African Negro Art," cat. no. 162, (also to CMA 9/27 - 10/27, 1935).', 'opening_date': '1927-09-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Portland Art Museum, Exhibition of Jewelry, November 21-December 28, 1952.', 'opening_date': '1952-11-21T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'NY: The Brooklyn Museum, Masterpieces of African Art, October 18, 1954-January 2, 1955.', 'opening_date': '1954-10-18T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art" 2/1/00 - 9/3/00, exh. cat. no. 18, p. 68.', 'opening_date': '2000-02-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Treasury of asantehene (King) Agyeman Prempeh I, Kumasi, Ghana
date: ?–1896
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(Charles Ratton Gallery, Paris, France via Pierre Matisse, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1935
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* Original object card, 9/14/35 (Curatorial File)
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1935–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Ratton, Charles. « Les bijoux en forme de disque etc. » Special Issue, Présence Africaine : L'Art Nègre 10-11. Paris : Aux Editions du Seuil (1951).
page number: Ill. opp. p. 192, no. 101, text p. 152.
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Wixom, William D. “African Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art,” African Arts 10, no. 3 (April 1977): 16-24.
page number: Repr. p. 21.
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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), and James Johnson Sweeney. African Negro Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1935.
page number: Mentioned: p. 39, no. 162
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Brooklyn Museum. Masterpieces of African Art. Exhibition Dates: October 21, 1954-January 2, 1955. [Brooklyn]: Brooklyn Museum, 1954.
page number: Mentioned: p. 39
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 388
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n72
Robbins, Warren M., and Nancy Ingram Nooter. African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 202-203, fig. 517
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Webb, Virginia-Lee, and Walker Evans. Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.
page number: Mentioned: p. 22; Reproduced: p. 23, fig. 13, p. 68, no. 18
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Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: cat. 19, p. 68 - 69
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Petridis, Constantine. "A World of Great Art for Everyone." In Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display. Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Christa Clarke, 104-121. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.
page number: Mentioned: p. 112
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Walker, Roslyn A., Martha J. Ehrlich, Christraud M. Geary, M. D. McLeod, and Doran H. Ross. The Power of Gold: Asante Royal Regalia from Ghana. Yale University Press, New Haven and London. Dallas : Dallas Museum of Art, 2018.
page number: Mentioned: p. 29; Reproduced: p. 95, cat. 42
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