Anonymous Nuna artist
Pendant
Burkina Faso
Early 20th century
Copper Alloy
Early 20th century
Copper Alloy
height 9 cm
height 3 1/2 in
height 3 1/2 in
Photo: Flori Esser
Further images
Provenance
Thomas G.B. Wheelock Collection, New York, USA
On long term loan to Ithaca College Museum (#621.69L)
Thomas G.B. Wheelock estate, New York, USA
Private collection, Brussels, Belgium
Exhibitions
“Art and Oracle. African Art and Rituals of Divination”,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 25 April-30 July 2000
Publications
LaGamma (Alisa), “Art and Oracle. African Art and Rituals of Divination”,
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 2000, p. 62, #38b
Roy (Christopher D). & Thomas G.B. Wheelock. “Land of the Flying Masks: Art and Culture in Burkina Faso-the Thomas G.B. Wheelock collection”, Munich, 2007, fig. 376