Head from a Ball Toss Game, (sculpture).

Head from a Ball Toss Game, (sculpture).

C. F. Dare Company, carver.

Head from a Ball Toss Game, (sculpture).

Carved and painted wood.

11 1/2 x 6 7/8 x 8 1/8 in.

Ethnic -- African American

Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th & G Streets, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 1986.65.301

Formerly in the collection of Hemphill, Herbert Waide Jr., 1967-1986.

Acquired from Fried, Frederick, New York, New York 1967.

National Museum of American Art, 1990.

Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006.

Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, "Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art," Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, no.153.

Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, "Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of America Art," Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, pg.187.

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