Ldamie and Dan
Male Figure on Stilts
Dan, 1900
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Copper alloy, 53 x 10.8 x 6.4 cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine O'Carroll Bussell and Robert Bruce Bussell, Arlington, Virginia
Object Number
1998.443
Male figure on stilts, wearing a tall headdress, short skirt, tunic shirt, armlets and neck rings and carrying an adze in the right hand and a cone shape in the left hand.
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.
