id:			130309
accession number:	1952.84
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.84
updated:		2025-02-09 01:52:05.391000

Disk Pendant (akrafokɔnmu), 1800s. Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Asante Empire/ Kingdom, member of the goldsmiths’ guild. Gold; diameter: 11 cm (4 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1952.84

title:				Disk Pendant (akrafokɔnmu)
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creation date:			1800s
creation date earliest:		1800
creation date latest:		1899
current location:		108C Akan & Yoruba
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Asante Empire/ Kingdom, member of the goldsmiths’ guild
technique:	Gold
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Jewelry
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measurements: Diameter: 11 cm (4 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Imagination of Primitive Man
	opening date:   1962-01-18T05:00:00
	<i>The Imagination of Primitive Man</i>. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (organizer) (January 18-February 25, 1962).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'The Brooklyn Museum (10/18/1954 - 1/2/1955): "Masterpieces of African Art"', 'opening_date': '1954-10-18T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (1/18/1962 - 2/25/1962): "The Imagination of Primitive Man"', 'opening_date': '1962-01-18T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art"', 'opening_date': '2006-06-09T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Sir Cecil Hamilton Armitage, Ghana
	date: ca. 1900
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	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1952
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1952–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ratton, Charles. « Les bijoux en forme de disque etc. » Special Issue,<em> Présence Africaine </em>: <em>L'Art Nègre</em> 10-11. Paris : Aux Editions du Seuil (1951)
	page number: 	Ill. opp. p. 129, no. 53; text p. 146.
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	Jopling, Carol F., ed. <em>Art and Aesthetics in Primitive Societies</em>. NY: E.P. Dutton &amp; Co., Inc., 1971: 66.
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	Simms, Lowery Stokes. <em>The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006: 32.
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	Brooklyn Museum. <em>Masterpieces of African Art. Exhibition Dates: October 21, 1954-January 2, 1955.</em> [Brooklyn]: Brooklyn Museum, 1954.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 39
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	William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Ralph T. Coe. <em>The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Literate Peoples of the World.</em> Kansas City, Mo: The Museum, 1962.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 25, cat. no. 34
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