Ceremonial Dish in the Form of a Rooster

Artist Yorùbá artist

Date20th century

Associated withAfrica

MediumWood and paint

DimensionsL. 21 1/2 x H. 15 3/4 x W. 6 in. (54.6 x 40 x 15.2 cm)

ClassificationsWood

Credit LineGift of Edward H. Merrin

Object numberG.71.45.6

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ProvenanceEdward H. Merrin, New York; given to NCMA 1971.Published ReferencesEdgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 69.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 12, nos. 1 and 2 (December 1973), listed 71.

North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 1993), 21, illus. (b-w).

Rebecca Martin Nagy, "New Galleries for the African, Ancient American, and Oceanic Collections," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview and Calendar of Events (January/February 2000), illus. (b-w) 5.

North Carolina Museum of Art Annual Report (1999-2000), illus. (b-w) 11.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Gallery, "Yoruba Art: A Living Tradition," October 23, 1992-June 12, 1993.

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