{
"data": {
"id": 148772,
"accession_number": "1976.29",
"share_license_status": "CC0",
"tombstone": "Figure, possibly early 1400s. Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone, Sapi-style carver. Soapstone; overall: 23.8 x 11.2 x 12.5 cm (9 3/8 x 4 7/16 x 4 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Lucile Munro in memory of her husband Thomas Munro, Curator of Education from 1931 to 1967, 1976.29",
"current_location": "108A African",
"title": "Figure",
"creation_date": "possibly early 1400s",
"creation_date_earliest": 1400,
"creation_date_latest": 1425,
"artists_tags": [],
"culture": [
"Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone, Sapi-style carver"
],
"technique": "soapstone",
"support_materials": [],
"department": "African Art",
"collection": "African Art",
"type": "Sculpture",
"measurements": "Overall: 23.8 x 11.2 x 12.5 cm (9 3/8 x 4 7/16 x 4 15/16 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"overall": {
"height": 0.238,
"height_inch": 9,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.375,
"width": 0.112,
"width_inch": 4,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.4375,
"depth": 0.125,
"depth_inch": 4,
"depth_inch_fraction": 0.9375
}
},
"state_of_the_work": null,
"edition_of_the_work": null,
"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 302374,
"title": "Year in Review, 1976",
"description": "Year in Review, 1976. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977).",
"opening_date": "1977-02-01T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 215135,
"title": "African Art: Permutations of Power",
"description": "African Art: Permutations of Power. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (organizer) (October 13, 1997-February 1, 1998).",
"opening_date": "1997-10-13T00:00:00"
}
],
"legacy": [
{
"description": "Kansas City, MO: Nelson Atkins Museum, The Imagination of Primitive Man, 1962 cat. no. 25",
"opening_date": "1962-01-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Washington, DC: National Gallery, African Sculpture, cat. no. 3, repr.",
"opening_date": null
},
{
"description": "CMA 1977: \"Year in Review 1976,\" Bulletin LXIV (February 1977), cat. no. 36, p. 74, repr. p. 72.",
"opening_date": "1977-02-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "International Exhibition Foundation",
"opening_date": null
},
{
"description": "Gainesville, FL: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 10/13/97 - 2/1/98 African Art: Permutations of Power (no catalogue)",
"opening_date": "1997-10-13T00:00:00"
}
]
},
"provenance": [
{
"description": "Heim, Paris",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": null,
"sortorder": null
},
{
"description": "Heim, Paris; Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Munro",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": null,
"sortorder": null
}
],
"find_spot": null,
"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [
"184.62"
],
"did_you_know": "Sapi sculptors worked in stone\u2014like in this sculpture\u2014as well as ivory.",
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": "The most varied group of soapstone figures and heads has been found in the homelands of the Kissi. Calling them pomda (\"images of the dead\"), the Kissi placed them in ancestral shrines, offering them the last seeds at sowing times and the first fruits of the harvest. However, the sculptures are believed to have been made centuries ago by the ancestors of the Kissi, the so-called Sapi people.",
"external_resources": {
"wikidata": [
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60779202"
],
"internet_archive": [
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1976.29-figure"
]
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "Fagg, William Buller, International Exhibitions Foundation, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Brooklyn Museum. 1970. African Sculpture; [Loan Exhibition] Circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation, 1970. Washington: International Exhibitions Foundation, p. 17, no. 3.",
"page_number": "",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Munro, Thomas. Form and Style in the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetic Morphology. Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1970, fig. 63.",
"page_number": "",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. 1976 Year in Review. Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland: OH, 1977, no. 2, cat. 36.",
"page_number": "",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Drewal, Henry John. African Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1989, fig. 2.",
"page_number": "",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. 1997. African Art : Permutations of Power. Gainesville, Fla: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, fig. 32.",
"page_number": "",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Plass, Margaret. \u201cAbove the Salt.\u201d Expedition Magazine 5, no. 3 (May, 1963): 39-41.",
"page_number": "",
"url": "https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/above-the-salt/"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 410",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n430"
},
{
"citation": "Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: cat. 10, p. 50 - 51",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Ralph T. Coe. The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Literate Peoples of the World. Kansas City, Mo: The Museum, 1962.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 20, cat. no. 25; reproduced: p. 21",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Robbins, Warren M., and Nancy Ingram Nooter. African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 153, fig. 280",
"url": null
}
],
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.29",
"images": {
"annotation": null,
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.29/1976.29_web.jpg",
"width": "628",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "329479",
"filename": "1976.29_web.jpg"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.29/1976.29_print.jpg",
"width": "2390",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "4768181",
"filename": "1976.29_print.jpg"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.29/1976.29_full.tif",
"width": "3720",
"height": "5292",
"filesize": "59091748",
"filename": "1976.29_full.tif"
}
},
"alternate_images": [
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.29/1976.29_alt0_web.jpg",
"width": "617",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "312749"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.29/1976.29_alt0_print.jpg",
"width": "2351",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "4550117"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.29/1976.29_alt0_full.tif",
"width": "3750",
"height": "5424",
"filesize": "61052988"
},
"date_created": "2009-10-27T12:17:24",
"annotation": ""
},
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.29/1976.29_alt1_web.jpg",
"width": "637",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "326386"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.29/1976.29_alt1_print.jpg",
"width": "2425",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "4883445"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.29/1976.29_alt1_full.tif",
"width": "3911",
"height": "5484",
"filesize": "64377004"
},
"date_created": "2009-10-27T12:18:17",
"annotation": ""
},
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.29/1976.29_alt2_web.jpg",
"width": "612",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "311556"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.29/1976.29_alt2_print.jpg",
"width": "2332",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "4548318"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.29/1976.29_alt2_full.tif",
"width": "3666",
"height": "5346",
"filesize": "58828208"
},
"date_created": "2009-10-27T12:19:17",
"annotation": ""
},
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.29/1976.29_alt3_web.jpg",
"width": "612",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "333681"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.29/1976.29_alt3_print.jpg",
"width": "2332",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "4786665"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.29/1976.29_alt3_full.tif",
"width": "3564",
"height": "5196",
"filesize": "55589068"
},
"date_created": "2009-10-27T12:20:04",
"annotation": ""
}
],
"creditline": "Gift of Lucile Munro in memory of her husband Thomas Munro, Curator of Education from 1931 to 1967",
"image_credit": null,
"sketchfab_id": null,
"sketchfab_url": null,
"gallery_donor_text": null,
"athena_id": 148772,
"creators": [],
"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1976-05-07T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": 1400,
"date_added_to_oa": null,
"date_text": "possibly early 1400s",
"collapse_artists": false,
"on_loan": false,
"recently_acquired": false,
"record_type": "object",
"conservation_statement": null,
"has_conservation_images": false,
"cover_accession_number": null,
"is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
"impression": null,
"alternate_titles": [
"Seated Figure (nomoli)"
],
"is_highlight": false,
"updated_at": "2026-05-29 07:38:31.405000"
}
}