About the Artwork
Key
late 19th or early 20th century
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African
Tuareg
Brass with silver and copper applique
Overall: 7 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 1/4 inches (19.1 × 3.8 × 0.6 cm)
Metalwork
African Art
Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Friends of African and African American Art, the African Oceanic, and New World Cultures General Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shelden III Fund, and the Henry and Consuelo W. Wenger Foundation Fund
1994.26.B
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Reynold C. Kerr (New York, New York, USA)
1994-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Tuareg, African, Key, late 19th or early 20th century, brass with silver and copper applique. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Friends of African and African American Art, the African Oceanic, and New World Cultures General Fund, et al., 1994.26.B.
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