Preparing Palm Oil: Shengge
Date1937
Artist
Frances Devereux Hall
(American sculptor, craftsperson, and decorator, 1872–1941)
MediumWatercolor on paper
Dimensions7 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (19.7 x 21.6 cm)
frame: 14 3/4 × 15 1/4 in. (37.5 × 38.7 cm)
frame: 14 3/4 × 15 1/4 in. (37.5 × 38.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. William Kimmel, 1973
Object number1973-119
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn the 1930s, Hall accompanied her husband, the anthropologist Henry Usher Hall, to Sierra Leone, where she recorded this image of the Shengge Chiefdom.