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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1996.31
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Bieri Reliquary Head
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Reliquary Head/ Pahouin Female Head
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
19th century
Places
Creation Place: Africa, Gabon
Culture
Fang
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232436

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3610, University Teaching Gallery
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Wood
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
38.1 x 13.97 x 14.61 cm (15 x 5 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lois Orswell, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1996.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
1996.31
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 284, fig. 186, p. 359, 362

Exhibition History

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