Object Title
Beaded Bowl Figure
Measurements
70.6 x 35.3 x 30.5 cm
Creation Date
late 19th-early 20th Century
Credit Line
Gift of William S. Arnett
Museum Name
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/19777/beaded-bowl-figure?ctx=8dc2518697e1fe8be9ebed146328fdf33d29ae48&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 50 years
Provenance Information
Acquired by Gilbert Schneider (1920-1999), missionary with the American Baptist Mission, as a gift from the Kom king Fon Law-aw, Cameroon, 1958 - 1966. Ex private collection, Athens, Georgia, by 1975. Ex coll. William Arnett (1939-2020, Atlanta, Georgia, by 1989.
Exhibition Information
Cameroon Art: Selections from the Collection of William Arnett, The Art Gallery, Kennesaw State College, Kennesaw, Georgia, January 30 - March 22, 1989
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, May 11, 1993 - July 1994
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, Rotation 1, December 15, 1995 - February 1997
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, Rotation 2, February 1997 - July 1998
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, Rotation 3, September 26, 1998 - Spring 2003
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, July 19, 2003 - March 13, 2007
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, November 19, 2007 - December 1, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, August 6, 2016 - January 12, 2022
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, May 17, 2022 - Present
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, May 11, 1993 - July 1994
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, Rotation 1, December 15, 1995 - February 1997
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, Rotation 2, February 1997 - July 1998
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, Rotation 3, September 26, 1998 - Spring 2003
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, July 19, 2003 - March 13, 2007
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, November 19, 2007 - December 1, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, August 6, 2016 - January 12, 2022
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, May 17, 2022 - Present
Publication Information
Tamara Northern, Royal Art of Cameroon: The Art of the Bamenda-Tikar (Hanover: Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, 1973), 23, figure 11.
Fred Ferretti, Afo-a-Kom: Sacred Art of Cameroon (New York: The Third Press, 1975), 59-61.
Pierre Harter, Arts anciens du Cameroun (Arnouville: Arts d'Afrique noire, 1986), 79, 209-12.
Cameroon Art: Selections from the Collection of William Arnett (Kennesaw: Kennesaw State College, 1989), back cover.
Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections: Survey 1989 (Washington DC: Smithsonian University Press, 1989), 318.
Michael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 100.
MCCM Newsletter, December 2007 - February 2008.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 105.
Fred Ferretti, Afo-a-Kom: Sacred Art of Cameroon (New York: The Third Press, 1975), 59-61.
Pierre Harter, Arts anciens du Cameroun (Arnouville: Arts d'Afrique noire, 1986), 79, 209-12.
Cameroon Art: Selections from the Collection of William Arnett (Kennesaw: Kennesaw State College, 1989), back cover.
Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections: Survey 1989 (Washington DC: Smithsonian University Press, 1989), 318.
Michael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 100.
MCCM Newsletter, December 2007 - February 2008.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 105.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Gifted to museum in 1994. Provenance research on this object is ongoing to determine if object was collected legally and ethically.