The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Antelope Headdress

Antelope Headdress

early 1900s
Wood, metal, glass beads, seashells, string, and probably tar
Overall: 45.2 x 4.8 x 12.4 cm (17 13/16 x 1 7/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
Gift of Katherine C. White 1962.307
Location: not on view
  • no earlier than 1939
    Julius Carlebach, NY
    ?-1962
    Katherine White Reswick (aka Katherine C. White)
    Provenance Footnotes
    1 Carlebach fled from the Nazis in Germany in 1937; he started his gallery in New York in 1939. The New York Times, obituary October 14, 1964 
  • Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 88-89, no. 55
  • The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
    MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 55, p. 118, repr. p. 89.
    African Sculpture. Kenyon College, Gambier, OH (organizer) (April 19-May 6, 1963).
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