id: 148772
accession number: 1976.29
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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
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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
Year in Review, 1976. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977).
title: African Art: Permutations of Power
opening date: 1997-10-13T00:00:00
African Art: Permutations of Power. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (organizer) (October 13, 1997-February 1, 1998).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'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': None}
* {'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': None}
* {'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'}
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PROVENANCE
Heim, Paris
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Heim, Paris; Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Munro
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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
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
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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
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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: p. 153, fig. 280
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IMAGES
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