The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 24, 2025

Headrest

1900s
Overall: 13.1 x 6.3 x 16.3 cm (5 3/16 x 2 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.)
Location: not on view
  • ?–1996
    Harry W. Langworthy III (?–1996)
    1996–
    Cleveland Museum of Art by gift
  • Curnow, Kathy. At Home in Africa: Design, Beauty, and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings. 2014. Cleveland, OH: Galleries at Cleveland State University. cat. no. 1-11, p. 16.
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. "CMA Annual Report, 1996" (Cleveland, CMA, 1997) listed p. 46.
    Smith, Fred T., Judith Perani, Joseph L. Underwood, and Martha J. Ehrlich. The Visual Arts of Africa : Gender, Power, and Life Cycle Rituals. Second edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 338-339, no. 12.3
  • At Home in Africa: Design, Beauty and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings. The Galleries at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 4, 2014).
    The Galleries at Cleveland State, OH (8/27/2014 - 10/4/2014): "At Home in Africa: Design, Beauty and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings", cat. no. 1-10, p. 16.
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1996.268