Feast Ladle (wakemia or wunkirmian)
Artist
Dan artist
Dateearly 20th century
MediumWood, metal, and plant fiber
Dimensions20 7/8 x 4 x 4 in. (53 x 10.2 x 10.2 cm)
ClassificationsWood
Credit LinePurchased with funds from The Christensen Fund and the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest), and Gift of Allen Clayton Davis in memory of his mother Mildred Grace Lee Davis
Object number2001.11
On View
On viewRebecca Martin Nagy, "New Acquisitions: Feast Ladle Collected in Liberia by Dr. George Way Harley Enters Collection," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (March/April 2002), 9, illus. (color).
Mary Ellen Soles, "Accent on Africa: Recent Acquisitions of African Art," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (March/April 2003), very briefly discussed 9.
Rebecca Martin Nagy and Dennis P. Weller, entry for Feast Ladle, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 128, illus. (color) 129.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Accent on Africa: Recent Acquisitions of African Art," April 6-August 10, 2003, brochure no. 5, illus. (b-w).
University Park, PA, The Palmer Museum of Art, “African Brilliance: A Diplomat’s Sixty Years of Collecting,” February 8–May 24, 2020.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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