Museum object · Visual Arts
Tales of Koumba: Golo the Monkey and Dancing Girls
1978
Senegal, West Africa, Africa
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A relief print depicting two nude female figures with a monkey. The two female figures are dancing at the left side of the image and the monkey sits to the right. Between them is a low cooking pot over a fire. A hut with a domed roof appears in the center background, with leaves and foliage surrounding the top and outside edges of the print. The title of the print [Gulo(sic) The Monkey and Dancing Girls] is written in pencil on the bottom left side and it is signed [James L. Wells] on the right.
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Catalog reference: 2023.111.52
