Palmer Museum of Art
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Palmer Museum of Art
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The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802-2507
Phone: 814-865-7672
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Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture from the New Orleans
Museum of Art
Special Exhibitions Gallery II and the Tonkin Gallery
February 19–May 11, 2008
Ciwara Crest Mask: Ciwara Kun or Sogoni Kun, Ciwara
association, Bamana peoples, Bougouni or Diola region, Mali. Wood, h. 16 3/8
inches. New Orleans Museum of Art. Bequest of Victor K. Kiam. 77.241. Photograph
courtesy of the Museum for African Art.
Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture from the New Orleans
Museum of Art
Special Exhibitions Gallery II and the Tonkin Gallery
February 19–May 11, 2008
Resonance from the Past consists of nearly 100 works from the New
Orleans Museum of Art's extensive collection of African art. The exhibition
highlights works from Central and West Africa and includes ancestral masks and
figures, musical instruments, and ceramics, as well as fabric and beadwork
costumes. This exceptional selection has been touring the country since 2005
while the African galleries at NOMA have been undergoing extensive renovation.
The exhibition was on view last year at the National Museum of African Art of
the Smithsonian Institution.
related articles: Resonance
from the Past
African Sculptures Permanent Collection at
Palmer Museum of Art
The arts of sub-Sahara Africa are represented by wood sculptures of ancestral
figures and deities, ritual masks, textiles, and the Mattil collection of cast
copper alloy weights used to counterweigh gold dust during the height of the
gold trade on the west coast of Africa.  African
Seated Male Figure Holding Jug
Nigerian [Igbo], n.d.
Nineteenth Century
Wood and pigment
Gift of Fred M. Richman
 African
Mask
Dan, n.d.
Wood and brown patina
Gift of Mr. Roy R. Neuberger
 African,
Nigeria, Oshogho [Yoruba]
A Standing Man with a Gun
n.d.
Wood
Gift of Fred M. Richman
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