About the Artwork
Chief's Cap
20th century
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African
Babanki
Cloth, cotton, and wool
Overall: 7 3/4 × 8 inches (19.7 × 20.3 cm)
Costume Accessories
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art
F78.44
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Charles B. Davis, The Gallery of Primitive Man, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)
1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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African Masterworks In The Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, cat. no. 43.
A Guide to Cameroon Art from the Collection of Paul and Clara Gebauer. Exh. cat., Portland Art Museum. Portland, October 30-December 1, 1968, pp. 18, 25.
Seiber, R. African Textiles and Decorative Arts. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 68-69.
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Babanki, African, Chief's Cap, 20th century, cloth, cotton, and wool. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art, F78.44.
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