The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Head
1650–1700
terracotta
Overall: 12.7 cm (5 in.)
Gift of Katherine C. White 1975.157
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The projection below the neck would allow this head to function as a stopper for a vessel or as a way to affix it to the body of a statue.
  • at least 1968–1975
    Katherine C. White
    1975–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift
    Provenance Footnotes
    1 This work appeared in the 1968 exhibition African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection as cat. no. 98
  • Fagg, William. African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968. No. 98.
  • Kent, OH, Kent State University Art Gallery, 1993: Leadership Arts of West Africa, September 15-October 15, 1993.
    CMA 1976: "Year in Review 1975," CMA Bulletin LXIII (Feb., 1976), p. 66, no. 27
    CMA 1968: "African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection," cat. no. 98, repr.
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