Disk Pendant (akrafokɔnmu)
1800s, before 1896
Maker Unknown
African Art
Disk Pendant (akrafokɔnmu), 1800s, before 1896. Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Asante Empire/Kingdom, probably Kumasi, member of the goldsmiths’ guild. Gold; diameter: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.); overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1935.310
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Jewelry
- Formatted Medium
- Gold
- Medium
- gold
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.); Overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.)
- Departments
- African Art
- Accession Number
- 1935.310
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
- African Textiles and Decorative Arts, The Arts of Ghana, Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Power of Gold: Asante Royal Regalia from Ghana, NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1935: "African Negro Art," cat. no. 162, (also to CMA 9/27 - 10/27, 1935).<br>NY: The Brooklyn Museum: Masterpieces of African Art, cat. no. 34.<br>NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 1972-1973: African Textiles and Decorative Arts. Also to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1973; and the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1973, cat. no. 162.<br>Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Dickson Art Center, 1977-1978: The Arts of Ghana, cat. no. 324, p. 153, repr. p. 155. Also to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 11-March 26, 1978, and the Dallas Museum of Art, May 30-July 2, 1978.<br>Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Emblems of Status, October 21, 1982-April 30, 1983.<br>Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Art in the Cycle of Life, September 15, 1987-March 20, 1988.<br>Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Elmina: Art and Trade on the West African Coast, October 14, 1992-February 28, 1993.<br>NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art" 2/1/00 - 9/3/00, exh. cat. no. 18, p. 68.<br>MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 36, p. 117, color repr. p. 32.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 108C Akan & Yoruba
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