Baule bobbins Côte d'Ivoire

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.

Photograph by Walker Evans in 1935 of two Baule bobbins displayed in an exhibit of the same year entitled 'African Negro Art' in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Original catalog caption reads, "Two bobbins, Ivory Coast, Baule, Ivory Coast. Baule. Wood, 7 and 9 inches high. Collection Percier, Paris and Mme. Helena Rubinstein, New York.".

Collection

Walker Evans photographs

Catalog date

1935

Recorded places

Africa; Côte d'Ivoire

Cataloged creator or photographer

Elisofon, Eliot; Evans, Walker, 1903-1975

Recorded subjects

Art objects

Format and extent

1 Photographic print (b&w, 8 x 10 in.)

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