id: 115162
accession number: 1935.309
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Jewelry, 1800s. Guinea Coast, Ghana, Asante, 19th century. Gold; overall: 6.4 x 2.1 cm (2 1/2 x 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1935.309
title: Jewelry
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creation date: 1800s
creation date earliest: 1800
creation date latest: 1899
current location: 108C Akan & Yoruba
creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture: Guinea Coast, Ghana, Asante, 19th century
technique: Gold
department: African Art
collection: African Art
type: Jewelry
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 6.4 x 2.1 cm (2 1/2 x 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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
* NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1935: "African Negro Art," cat. no. 162, (also to CMA 9/27 - 10/27, 1935).
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.
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PROVENANCE
Treasury of King Prempeh
date: before 1896-?
footnotes:
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(Charles Ratton, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1935
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1935-
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fun fact:
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wall description:
Shared by different Akan and Akan-related peoples, including the Asante and Baule, gold ornaments indicate status and wealth and are worn at public festivals by titleholders, chiefs, and kings. Most pectoral disks are suspended over the chest by a white, pineapple-fiber cord. They are owned by the okra, a young official who purifies the chief’s soul--hence, the name akrafokonmu, meaning "soul-washer’s badges" or "soul disks."
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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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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, 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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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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Robbins, Warren M., and Nancy Ingram Nooter. African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 202-203, fig 516
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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: Reproduced: p. 95, cat. 43
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