Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa: July 2011–June 2012
Calabash-shaped milk bowl
mid 20th–20th century
Artist Unidentified, African
Height x diameter: 21.6 x 38.1 cm (8 1/2 x 15 in.)
Wood
Classification: Vessels
Culture: African, Tuareg peoples, Niger
Accession number: 2011.1730
Provenance/Ownership History: By 1994, with an African dealer, New York; 1994, sold by this dealer to Timothy Hamill, Boston; 2011, gift of Timothy Hamill to the MFA. (Accession date: September 21, 2011)
Gift of Tim Hamill