The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 4, 2023

Antelope Headdress

early 1900s

Western Sudan, Mali, Bamana, early 20th century

Wood, metal, glass beads, seashells, string, and probably tar

Overall: 45.2 x 4.8 x 12.4 cm (17 13/16 x 1 7/8 x 4 7/8 in.)

Gift of Katherine C. White 1962.307

Location

not on view

Provenance
no earlier than 1939
Julius Carlebach, NY 1
?-1962
Katherine White Reswick (aka Katherine C. White)

Provenance Footnotes

1 Carlebach fled from the Nazis in Germany in 1937; he started his gallery in New York in 1939. The New York Times, obituary October 14, 1964
Citations
Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 88-89, no. 55
Exhibition history

MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 55, p. 118, repr. p. 89.

African Sculpture. Kenyon College, Gambier, OH (organizer) (April 19-May 6, 1963).

The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1962.307