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Baga

Model Canoe Headdress (a-Bil-ña-Tshol)

Baga, Early 20th century

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Baga

Model Canoe Headdress (a-Bil-ña-Tshol)

Baga, Early 20th century

Physical Qualities Wood, polychrome, pitch, 199 L x 23 H x 7 W cm.
Credit Line Purchased as the gift of Charles W. Newhall III, Owings Mills, Maryland
Object Number 2001.287
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2001; Sotheby's, New York; ex an American collector; ex Jacques Boussard, Paris; ex Jacqueline and Maurice Nicaud, Paris, collected in Guinea c. 1954
"ART OF THE BAGA: A DRAMA OF CULTURAL REINVENTION," Museum for African Art, New York, and The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 1996-1997.
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.164-165, ill.
'New Acquisitions on View,' 'BMA Today,' November/December 2001, p.8, ill.

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