Dance shield (kai diba)

20th century

Medium/TechniqueWood, pigments

DimensionsOverall: 24.1 x 75.6 cm (9 1/2 x 29 3/4 in.)
Lender accessory (Mount): 24.1 x 17.8 x 7.6 cm (9 1/2 x 7 x 3 in.)

Credit LineBequest of William E. Teel

Accession number2014.323

On View

On view

ClassificationsPersonal accessories

Collections

Africa and Oceania

ProvenanceBy about 1930s, Joseph Standley (d. 1940), Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Seattle. From about the 1930s until the 1980s, in a collection in Los Angeles [see note]. July 31, 1990, sold by Hurst Gallery, Cambridge, MA, to William and Bertha Teel, Marblehead, MA; 2014, bequest of William Teel to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 26, 2014)

NOTE: According to the dealer at the time of the Teels’ purchase (1990), the object was taken to Los Angeles in the 1930s and remained in storage there “until recently.”