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Four-faced Headdress

1850-1950
19th-20th C.
Africa, Gabon
14 3/4 in. x 8 1/4 in. x 8 in. (37.47 cm x 20.96 cm x 20.32 cm)

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Artist unknown

Culture/People: Fang peoples

Medium: Wood and pigment

Credit Line: Given in honor of Thomas K. Seligman by the Halperin Family

Accession Number: 2011.125

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Bibliography

Cantor Arts Center, "Newsletter," (January-March 2013), pg. 16, repr.

"Fang sculpture, mid 19th century, Equatorial Guinea or Gabon". 2000. Sculptures, Africa, Asia, Oceania, Americas: Musée De Louvre, Pavillon Des Sessions. 30-31.

New York (City), and Robert John Goldwater. 1962. The Great Bieri.

Fernandez, James W. 1979. "The feeling of architectonic form: residual and emergent qualities in Fang cult and culture". Visual Arts: Plastic and Graphic. 103-137.

McKesson, John A. 1982. Evolution of Fang reliquary sculpture. Thesis (M.A.)--Columbia University, 1982.

Perrois, Louis. 1985. Ancestral art of Gabon: from the collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum. Geneva: The Museum.

Perrois, Louis. 2006. Fang. Milan: 5 Continents.

Perrois, Louis, Marta Sierra Delage, Roger Marshall, and Barry Kench. 1991. The art of Equatorial Guinea: the Fang tribes. Barcelona: Fundación Folch.

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