Mumuye
Figurative Gong
Mumuye, 1866
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Mumuye
Figurative Gong
Mumuye, 1866
Physical Qualities
Wood, 36 3/4 H x 7 1/16 Diam. in. (93.4 x 18 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert Elkin, Mitchellville, Maryland
Object Number
1999.596
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1999; Herbert Baker, Los Angeles, 1978, who purchased it in Africa before 1969.
'African Art in American Collections,' Survey 1989 - Robbins, Nooter, pg. 556, #1528.
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.96, ill.
New York (N.Y.). Museum of Primitive Art, "The Herbert Baker Collection." New York: Distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., 1969, p.18, cat. no. 89.
