"Women also make fences like these to keep young livestock together outside or they can be used inside to separate beds." (Kakuta Hamisi, 2001)
Bamboo and leather
132 1/2 x 40 1/2 x 1/2 in.
General Acquisition Fund
2000.18
Not currently on view
Resources
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Feb. 7 - May 19, 2002 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 2, 2004 - Jan. 2, 2005; Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Feb. 12 - June 19, 2005 [as African Art, African Voices: Long Steps Never Broke a Back]). [Exhibition traveled on to Cincinnati Art Museum and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, but object not included.]
Seattle Art Museum respectfully acknowledges that we are on Indigenous land, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people. We honor our ongoing connection to these communities past, present, and future.
