On View
- Artist
- Unknown (Nigerian, Yorùbá People)
- Title
- Òsùgbó (Ògbóni) Elders' Society Drum (agba Òsùgbó)
- Date
- early to mid-20th century
- Medium
- Wood
- Dimensions
- 42 3/4 H x 17 1/2 diam. in. Overall
- Credit
- Frank and Roa Birch, Eugenie Mayer Bolz, Harry and Margaret P. Glicksman, J. David and Laura Seefried Horsfall, William R. Mitchell, and Ruth C. Wallerstein Endowment Funds, and Charlotte Calvin Voorhis Estate Fund purchase
- Accession No.
- 1992.37
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Geography
- Nigeria
Related
June 1992, sold by Tambaran Gallery (New York, NY) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called the Chazen Museum of Art] (Madison, WI)
- Exhibition gallery guide, "Revealing Forms: African Art from the Elvehjem Collection." 2002.
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 8, No. 4, September/ October 1992. p. 1
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Bulletin 1991-1993." Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1994. p. 131
- Revealing Forms: African Art from the Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/20/2002–6/16/2002
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