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Currency Bar, (Funfungala, Akika)

Photo by Tom Joyce

Currency Bar, (Funfungala, Akika)

19th - 20th century

Iron
33 x 10 1/4 x 1/2 in. (83.8 x 26 x 1.3cm)
Partial gift of Tom Joyce and partial purchase with funds from John and Robyn Horn
2007.194
Photo by Tom Joyce
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryAsheville, North Carolina, Life Force at the Anvil, A Blacksmith's Art from Africa, May 22 - August 28, 1998
Published ReferencesSchadler, Karl-Ferdinand, trans. Geoffrey P. Burwell, Earth and Ore: 2500 Years of African Art in Terra-Cotta and Metal. Eurasburg: Edition Minerva Hermann Famung, 1997 p.327

Joyce, Tom. Life Force at the Anvil: The Blacksmith's Art from Africa. Asheville, North Carolina: Biltmore Press, 1998 p.23

Chesi, Gert and Daphne Schlorhaufer. Afrika, Asien: Kunst und Ritualobjekte. Innsbruck: Haymon, [1997] p. 90

Lohse, Wulf and Huberte Goote. Other People’s Money. Zug, Switzerland: Huberte Goote Gallery, 1995 p. 19

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