Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa: July 2011–June 2012
Calabash
mid 20th–20th century
Artist Unidentified, African
Height x diameter: 38.1 x 34.3 cm (15 x 13 1/2 in.)
Gourd, fiber, bark
Classification: Vessels
Culture: African, Senufo peoples, Côte d'Ivoire
Accession number: 2011.1731
Provenance/Ownership History: By 1992, with an African dealer, New York; 1002, 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