Ldamie and Dan
Male Figure Blowing a Horn
Dan, 1900
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Copper alloy, 15.3 x 7 x 7.5 cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine O'Carroll Bussell and Robert Bruce Bussell, Arlington, Virginia
Object Number
1998.449
Male figure blowing a horn with his right hand with left hand held out to the side; wearing a fez, a single strand around the waist, and a semi-circular ornament on the right bicep.
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.
