Mother and child by a kitchen hearth with dried ears of corn. Kongonou, Aitu...

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Description: Mother and child by a kitchen hearth with dried ears of corn, Kongonou, Aitu region

TitleMother and child by a kitchen hearth with dried ears of corn, Kongonou, Aitu region

Creator name (description)Photograph by Susan Mullin Vogel

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1982

Object typePhotograph

SubjectsBaule (African people)Women, BauleCooking, West African

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Introduction

Susan Mullin Vogel

Baule: African Art, Western Eyes

~THE BAULE MASK SPOTLIT IN THE MUSEUM CASE OR HANGING OVER THE MANTEL HAS BECOME “BAULE ART,” THOUGH EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT ONCE, IN A DIFFERENT PLACE, IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY. THIS BOOK WILL TRY TO TAKE YOU TO THAT PLACE.

Author

Susan Mullin Vogel

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.12-23

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00287.1

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22144&redirecttoanchor=74260

Chapter subject tags:Baule (African peoples)Figure sculpture, AfricanFieldworkArt, BauleCôte d'Ivoire

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