Dan and Ldamie
Female Figure Holding a Knife
Dan, 1900
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Copper alloy, 17.3 x 7.5 x 5 cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine O'Carroll Bussell and Robert Bruce Bussell, Arlington, Virginia
Object Number
1998.446
Female figure holding a knife in her right hand with left hand holding lower back; coiffure of concentric circles with a sagittal crest protruding in the front; wearing a single strand around the waist.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; collected in Liberia between 1923-1929 by the parents of donor (Bruce Bussell): Conrad Turner Bussell and Pauline Bussell. Mr. Bussell was sent by the U.S. Government under President Calvin Coolidge to survey the boundaries of Liberia. He was, instead, made Supervisor of Customs by President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia, and later made Financial Advisor to President King. Mrs. Bussell arrived in 1926.
"Meditations on African Art: Light," Dec 17, 2006 - Apr 1, 2007, BMA, Karen Milbourne.
