Beembe
Standing Female Figure
Bembe, 1933-1966
Scroll
Beembe
Standing Female Figure
Bembe, 1933-1966
Physical Qualities
Wood, ivory, 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Jamosil Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia
Object Number
1989.127
incised, raised designs on shoulders, stomach
"Black Womanhood: Image, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body," Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, April 1-August 10, 2008; circulated to the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, September 10-December 10, 2008, San Diego Museumof Art, January 1-March 17, 2009.
Thompson, Barbara, ed., "Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body," Dartmouth and Seattle: The Hood Museum of Art in association with University of Washington Press, 2008, p. 102, plate 8, illus.
