Currently not on view
Hip ornament,
before 1924
probably Kuba artist
y1953-204
Information
Title
Hip ornament
Dates
before 1924
Maker
probably Kuba artist
Medium
Glass beads, cotton, and rawhide
Dimensions
l. 62.5 cm., diam. 4.7 cm. (24 5/8 x 1 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Donald B. Doyle in memory of her husband, Class of 1905
Object Number
y1953-204
Place Made
Africa, possibly Democratic Republic of the Congo
Materials
Techniques
Subject
Collected by Joyce K. Doyle in the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo (former Belgian Congo) in or near Tshikapa (Kasai region) or Kinshasa between 1919 and 1923. Gift of Mrs. Donald B. Doyle, 1947.
- Sarah Brett-Smith, "The Doyle Collection of African Art," in "The Doyle Collection of African Art," special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 42, no. 2 (1983): p. 2, 8-34., p. 29, fig. 21
- "Gifts of Mrs. Donald B. Doyle in memory of her husband Donald B. Doyle, Class of 1905," in "The Doyle Collection of African Art," special issue Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 42, no. 2 (1983): p. 35-42., p. 41
