Headrest

Description

Wooden headrest: East Africa, Tanzania, Mambwe, late 19th century

Museum reference

A.1981.31

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Headrest

Production information

Tanzania, Eastern Africa

Date

Late 19th century

Style / Culture

Mambwe

Materials

Wood

Physical description

Wood

Associations

Collector: Purves, Adam D., 1865 - 1901
A.D. Purves Collection

Exhibitions

• The Rising of a New Moon: A Century of Tabwa Art (17 Mar 1986)
  National Museum of African Art
  University of Michigan Museum of Art
  Royal Museum for Central Africa

References

Photograph reproduced in Simon Martin, (eds.) Steven Bode and Elena Hill, Film and Video Umbrella (FVU) and Elena Hill, London, 2015. pp. 70-75.

1985. Roberts, Allen F. and E. M. Maurer (eds.), Tabwa. The Rising of a New Moon: A Century of Tabwa Art, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, p.263