id:			148772
accession number:	1976.29
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.29
updated:		2022-09-10 10:50:09.063000

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

title:				Figure
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creation date:			possibly early 1400s
creation date earliest:		1400
creation date latest:		1425
current location:		108A Sub-Saharan
creditline:			Gift of Lucile Munro in memory of her husband Thomas Munro, Curator of Education from 1931 to 1967
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culture:	Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone, Sapi-style carver
technique:	soapstone
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 23.8 x 11.2 x 12.5 cm (9 3/8 x 4 7/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review, 1976
	opening date:   1977-02-01T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review, 1976</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977).

	title:		African Art:  Permutations of Power
	opening date:   1997-10-13T00:00:00
	<i>African Art:  Permutations of Power</i>. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (organizer) (October 13, 1997-February 1, 1998).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Kansas City, MO:  Nelson Atkins Museum, The Imagination of Primitive Man, 1962 cat. no. 25<br>Washington, DC:  National Gallery, African Sculpture, cat. no. 3, repr.<br>CMA 1977:  "Year in Review 1976," Bulletin LXIV (February 1977), cat. no. 36, p. 74, repr. p. 72.<br>International Exhibition Foundation<br>Gainesville, FL: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 10/13/97 - 2/1/98 African Art: Permutations of Power (no catalogue)

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PROVENANCE

	Heim, Paris
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	Heim, Paris; Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Munro
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wall 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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 410
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n430

	Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. 10, p. 50 - 51
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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. 20, cat. no. 25; reproduced: p. 21
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	Robbins, Warren M., and Nancy Ingram Nooter.<em> African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989</em>. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 153, fig. 280
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