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Ldamie and Dan

Female Figure Holding a Pot on Her Head

Dan, 1900

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Female Figure Holding a Pot on Her Head

Dan, 1900

Physical Qualities Copper alloy, 16.6 x 5.7 x 3.7 cm.
Credit Line Gift of Catherine O'Carroll Bussell and Robert Bruce Bussell, Arlington, Virginia
Object Number 1998.447
Female figure holding a pot on her head with her right hand; single twisted strand around her 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.

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