Ldamie ::: Group P ::: The African Art Collection of Walter Logan Fry

This gallery includes twelve collectors of the art of Ldamie. Eleven traveled to Liberia, and ten of those lived and worked in Liberia.

Of the eleven that have traveled to Liberia, only two can be classified as tourists: John Oliver La Gorce and Alfred J. Tulk. Seven of the eleven collectors not only lived in Liberia, but were primarily in the country for long-term employment purposes. Collecting was essentially a personal venture undertaken in their available free time. This group of collectors included Rudolf Fuszek, John Gant, Walter Wilson, Sidney de la Rue, Charles T. Bussell, George Way Harley and Walter Logan Fry. An eighth can be added. Etta Becker-Donner was not in Liberia as a tourist or solely for the purpose of collection; but for anthropological study.

To these ten can be added William Siegmann, a museum professional for whom collecting was a primary activity. I include myself as the twelfth member of the group of collectors, since when the work I have collected is added to the work collected by my father, it constitutes the largest collection of the work of Ldamie in the world.

It cannot be stressed too strongly that ten of the twelve most prolific collectors of the work of Ldamie were definitely not tourists, by any modern understanding of the term.

Given that understanding, we still do not know exactly how these collectors acquired their art, myself excluded, of course. In her essay in Iowa Studies in African Art, Volume II (1987), Note 3, p. 57, Barbara Johnson related that Alfred J. Tulk acquired three works made by brass caster, Bwayen (Bwaiwehn) from
". . . District Commissioner George Dunbar, who collected them from village chiefs in lieu of hut taxes." Of all the objects she studied, these were the only ones she indicated as having been collected, in the first instance, by village

chiefs or Liberian government officials. William Siegmann, however, may have also acquired his work from such sources.

What of the others?

We know from a close reading The Messages of Tourist Art by Bennett Jules-Rosette, that there are many pathways by which collectors obtain the work of African artists, and one is by direct purchase from the artist himself. Such was the case with Etta Becker-Donner. It does not seem likely that the five collectors who collected five or more objects (Alfred J. Tulk being excluded) visited village chiefs or government offices to find their acquisitions. I submit that it is more likely that a majority of these collectors either sought out the artist in his workshop and home village, or even more likely, that the artist came to them to present his work for purchase. Firestone's headquarters at the Du or George Harley's mission would have been likely places to do so; and such would seem to be the case with my father, who traveled upriver to make his purchases. I believe that it was at the Firestone Plantation headquarters that he did so. Note that the picture of Ldamie in my father's collection of photographs seems to be at the Du, rather than the village in which Ldamie lived.

An important note about the collectors. All were persons of considerable accomplishment, holding important business, governmental and societal positions. And with a few exceptions, all tended to purchase five, six or seven works (my father acquired seven, one of which has been lost). This evidences a fondness for Ldamie's work or, in other words, a perception of his work as being worthy of their attention and acquisition.

The conclusion I reach is that the majority of collectors were not purchasing as tourists, but as collectors of art; and that it is more likely than not that they purchased directly from Ldamie.

Rudolph Fuszek

Collected by Rudolf Fuszek.

Fuszek came to Monrovia, Liberia in 1913, and later became Liberia's first Director of the Bureau of National Public Health and Sanitation, serving from 1930 to 1940. In addition to his medical practice, he compiled a valuable ethnographic collection, which he donated to the Neprájzi Múzeum (Museum of Ethnography) of Budapest in 1937.

Figure 012002 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; male figure urinating; collected before 1939 by Dr. Rudolf Fuszek; 9 1/16 in. (23 cm); Etta Becker-Donner

Figure 012002

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People /
Liberia; male figure urinating
water; collected before 1939
by Dr. Rudolf Fuszek; brass
(copper alloy); 9 1/16 in. (23 cm);
Etta Becker-Donner "Kunst und
Handwerk in NO-Liberia"; p. 50.

Figure 012003 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; male figure with drum; collected before 1939 by Dr. Rudolf Fuszek; 7 11/16 in. (19.5 cm);Etta Becker-Donner
Figure 012003

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People /
Liberia; male figure with drum;
collected before 1939 by
Dr. Rudolf Fuszek; brass
(copper alloy); 7 11/16 in. (19.5 cm);
Etta Becker-Donner "Kunst und
Handwerk in NO-Liberia"; p. 51.

Figure 008061 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; male figure on stilts; collected before 1939 by Dr. Rudolf Fuszek; 7 11/16 in. (19.5 cm);Etta Becker-Donner
Figure 012006

Artist: Duane Yibay /
Liberia; male figure on stilts;
collected before 1939 by
Dr. Rudolf Fuszek; brass
(copper alloy); Etta Becker-
Donner "Kunst und Handwerk
in NO-Liberia"; p. 51.

John Gant

Collected by John Gant, Firestone Tire & Rubber Employee at the Firestone Rubber Plantation in Liberia between 1920 and 1928

Figure 011001 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people / Liberia female figure with staff
collected before 1930 brass 8 in. (20.3 cm) Indianapolis Museum of Art Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Eiteljorg No. 1989-335
Figure 011001

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
female figure with staff; collected
between 1920 and 1928 by Firestone
Plantation employee, John Gant; brass
(copper alloy); 8 in. (20.3 cm). Indianapolis
Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs.
Harrison Eiteljorg; No. 1989-335.

John Oliver La Gorce

Collected by John Oliver La Gorce, former President of National Geographic Society, 1928 or earlier

Figure 005001; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people / Liberia

Figure 005001

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
female figure winnowing rice; collected
before 1928; brass (copper alloy); 8 1/4 in.
(21 cm); gift of John Oliver La Gorce Estate;
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural
History; No. E398838.

Walter Wilson

Collected by Walter Wilson, Firestone Tire & Rubber Employee at the Firestone Rubber Plantation in Liberia prior to 1930

Wilson's assignment in Liberia was to develop a hybrid rubber tree which would yield higher and better production of latex.

Figure 013010; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; crocodile; collected 1926-30 by Walter Wilson; brass

Figure 013010

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
crocodile; collected 1926-30 by Walter Wilson;
brass (copper alloy); 1-15/16 x 1-9/16 x 11-7/16 in
(5 x 4 x 29 cm); Brooklyn Museum;
No. 2012.75.7; Gift of Tom and Anna Boyle

Figure 013007a; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; Male figure with drum; collected 1926-30 by Walter Wilson; brass

Figure 013007a

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
male figure with drum; collected
1926-30 by Walter Wilson;
brass (copper alloy); 8 11/16 x 3 1/8 x 3 3/8 in.
(22 x 8 x 8.5 cm); Brooklyn Museum;
No. 2012.75.8; Gift of Tom and Anna Boyle

Figure 013007b; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; Male figure with drum; collected 1926-30 by Walter Wilson; brass

Figure 013007b

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
male figure with drum; collected
1926-30 by Walter Wilson;
brass (copper alloy); 8 11/16 x 3 1/8 x 3 3/8 in.
(22 x 8 x 8.5 cm); Brooklyn Museum;
No. 2012.75.8; Gift of Tom and Anna Boyle

Figure 0009002 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people
/ Liberia; female figure carrying child; collected by Walter Wilson, Firestone employee, 1926-30; 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm); Collection of William Logan Fry

Figure 009002

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
female figure carrying child; collected
1926-30 by Walter Wilson; brass (copper alloy);
7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm); collection of
William Logan Fry.

Figure 013006 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people
/ Liberia; slave trader with bound slave

Figure 013006

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People, Liberia;
slave trader with bound slave; collected
1926-30 by Walter Wilson, employee
the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Liberia
brass (copper alloy); Brooklyn Museum

Figure 013005 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people
/ Liberia; man holding unknown objects

Figure 013005

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People, Liberia;
man holding unknown objects; collected
1926-30 by Walter Wilson, employee
the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Liberia
brass (copper alloy); Brooklyn Museum

Figure 013008 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people
/ Liberia; man holding unknown object

Figure 013008

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People, Liberia;
man holding unknown object; collected
1926-30 by Walter Wilson, employee
the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Liberia
brass (copper alloy); Brooklyn Museum

Figure 013009 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people
/ Liberia; horse and horseman

Figure 013009

Artist: possible Ldamie; Dan People, Liberia;
horse and horseman; collected
1926-30 by Walter Wilson, employee
the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Liberia
brass (copper alloy); Brooklyn Museum

Sidney de la Rue

Collected by Sidney de la Rue, American Financial Advisor to Liberia's President Charles Dunbar Burgess King.

Sidney de la Rue left Liberia in 1929 by reason of illness.

Figure 002002; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; Male figure with drum; collected before 1935 by Sidney De La Rue ; brass; 8 in. (20 cm); American Museum of Natural History; Gift of Sidney De La Rue; No. 90.2/ 3387

Figure 002002

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
male figure with drum; collected
before 1935 by Sidney De La Rue;
brass (copper alloy); 8 in. (20 cm);
American Museum of Natural History;
Gift of Sidney De La Rue; No. 90.2/3387

Figure 002003 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; Male figure with drum; collected before 1935 by Sidney De La Rue; brass; American Museum of Natural History; Gift of Sidney De La Rue; No. 90.2/ 3386

Figure 002003

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
male figure with drum; collected
before 1935 by Sidney De La Rue;
brass (copper alloy); American
Museum of Natural History; Gift of
Sidney De La Rue; No. 90.2/3386

Figure 002001; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio
people / Liberia; female figure with axe; collected before 1935 by Sidney De La Rue; brass; 9 1/16 in. (22.7 cm); American Museum of
Natural History; Gift of Sidney De La Rue; No. 90.2/ 3385

Figure 002001

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
female figure with ax; collected
before 1935 by Sidney De La Rue;
brass (copper alloy); 9 1/16 in. (22.7 cm);
American Museum of Natural History;
Gift of Sidney De La Rue; No. 90.2/3385

Figure 002004; Ldamie brass caster
brass casting Dan Gio people / Liberia; Seated male figure with drum collected before 1935 by Sidney De La Rue; American Museum of Natural History; Gift of Sidney De La Rue; No. 90.2/ 3458

Figure 002004

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
seated male figure with drum; collected
before 1935 by Sidney De La Rue;
brass (copper alloy); American
Museum of Natural History; Gift of
Sidney De La Rue; No. 90.2/3458.

Conrad T. Bussell

Collected by Conrad T. Bussell, prior to 1930.

Bussell was General Receiver of Customs in Monrovia, and later Deputy Financial Officer to Liberian President Charles Dunbar Burgess King. Bussell helped negotiate the agreement with President King, Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., Sidney de la Rue, and the U.S. government, to establish Firestone's large rubber plantation in Liberia.

Liberia Ldamie brass figure

Figure 003004

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
Female Figure Holding a Knife; collected
1929 or earlier by Conrad T. Bussell; brass
(copper alloy); 6.8 in. (17.3 cm). Baltimore
Museum of Art; Gift of Catherine and
Robert B. Bussell; BMA 1998:446.

Liberia Ldamie brass figure

Figure 003005

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
Female Figure; collected 1929 or earlier
by Conrad T. Bussell; brass (copper alloy);
8.39 in. (21.3 cm). Baltimore Museum
of Art; Gift of Catherine and Robert B.
Bussell; BMA 1998:445.

Liberia Ldamie brass figure

Figure 003001

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
female figure carrying water; collected
1929 or earlier; brass (copper alloy); xx in.
(xx cm). Baltimore Museum of Art;
Gift of Catherine and Robert B. Bussell;
BMA 1998:447.

Figure 003002; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people / Liberia; Male figure with drum; brass

Figure 003002

Artist: Attributed to Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
male figure with drum; collected 1929 or earlier by
Conrad T. Bussell; brass (copper alloy); (20.8 x 8 x 6 cm)
8 3/16 x 3 5/32 x 2 23/64 in; Baltimore Museum of Art;
No. 1998.444; Gift of Catherine and Robert B. Bussell

Liberia Ldamie brass figure

Figure 003003

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
Kneeling Male Figure Missing Lower Arm;
collected 1929 or earlier by Conrad T.
Bussell; brass (copper alloy); 4.3 in. (11 cm).
Baltimore Museum of Art; Gift of Catherine
and Robert B. Bussell; BMA 1998:450.

Liberia Ldamie brass figure

Figure 003006

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
Male Figure Blowing a Horn; collected
1929 or earlier by Conrad T. Bussell; brass
(copper alloy); 6.7 in. (17 cm). Baltimore
Museum of Art; Gift of Catherine and
Robert B. Bussell; BMA 1998:448.

Liberia Ldamie brass figure

Figure 003007

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
Male Figure Blowing a Horn; collected
1929 or earlier by Conrad T. Bussell; brass
(copper alloy); 6.0 in. (15.3 cm). Baltimore
Museum of Art; Gift of Catherine and
Robert B. Bussell; BMA 1998:449.

Alfred J. Tulk

Collected by Alfred J. Tulk.

Born in London in 1899. he moved his family to the United States, where, in 1923, he earned a degree in studio art from Yale University. In 1931, at the invitation of Yale classmate, George W. Harley, he and his family left for Liberia, where they spent 18 months at the Methodist mission in Ganta. He returned to the US in 1933 with a cache of African artifacts, including masks, statues and household items.

Figure_004003; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people / Liberia; seated man with
pipe and matches; collected in 1933-1934 by Alfred Tulk; brass; 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm); San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts; Gift of Robert
and Barbara Johnson ; No. 1996.192

Figure 004003

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People /
Liberia; male figure with pipe
and matches; collected in 1933-34
by Alfred Tulk; brass (copper
alloy); 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm);
San Francisco Museum of Fine
Arts; Gift of Robert and Barbara
Johnson; No. 1996.192.

Figure 008001; Ldamie brass caster brass casting
Dan Gio people / Liberia; blacksmith; collected in 1932-1933 by Alfred Tulk; brass; 6 5/16 in. (16 cm); Private Collection

Figure 008001

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People /
Liberia; blacksmith; collected
in 1932-33 by Alfred Tulk;
brass (copper alloy); 6 5/16 in.
(16 cm); private collection.

Figure 004002 Ldamie brass caster brass castng Dan Gio
people / Liberia female figure with nitien ca. 1920-1950 brass 7 1/2 in. (19 cm) San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts Gift of Robert and
Barbara Johnson No. 1994.171.2

Figure 004002

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People /
Liberia; female figure with nitien;
collected 1933 by Alfred J. Tulk; brass
(copper alloy); 7 1/2 in. (19 cm);
San Francisco Museum of Fine
Arts; Gift of Robert and Barbara
Johnson; No. 1994.171.2.

Figure 004001 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; male figure with knife; ca. 1920-1950; brass; 7 5/16 in. (18.5 cm); San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts; Gift of
Robert and Barbara Johnson ; No. 1994.171.1

Figure 004001

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People /
Liberia; male figure with knife;
collected 1933 by Alfred J. Tulk;
brass (copper alloy); 7 5/16 in. (18.5 cm);
San Francisco Museum of Fine
Arts; Gift of Robert and Barbara
Johnson; No. 1994.171.1.

Figure 004004 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; elephant; brass; 7 5/16 in. (18.5 cm); San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts; Gift of Robert
and Barbara Johnson ; No. 1994.171.1

Figure 004004

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
elephant; collected 1933 by Alfred J. Tulk;
brass (copper alloy); 4 3/4 x 12 1/2 x 2 1/2
(12.1 x 31.8 x 6.4 cm); San Francisco Museum
of Fine Arts; Gift of Robert and Barbara
Johnson; Accession No. 1995.90.3.

George Way Harley

Collected by George W. Harley, Missionary.

In 1925, Harley founded and developed a Methodist mission in Ganta, in the interior of Liberia, where he remained until 1960, aside from vacations. He is known for the great number of masks and other art and handwerk that he collected and sold to Peabody Museum, Cambridge. Others are now found in museums around the country.

Figure 001004; Ldamie brass caster brass casting
Dan Gio people / Liberia; blacksmith; ca. 1920-1950; brass; 6 1/8 in. (15.4 cm); Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology (Cambridge); No. 32-49-50/49

Figure 001004

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
blacksmith; collected 1932
or before by George W. Harley;
brass (copper alloy); 6 1/8 in. (15.4 cm);
Sold to Peabody Museum of Natural
History (Cambridge) by George W.
Harley; No. 32-49-50/49.

Figure 001003 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; 3 trumpeteers; ca. 1920-1950; brass; 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm); Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology (Cambridge); No. 32-49-50/50

Figure 001003

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia; three
trumpeteers; collected 1932 or before by
George W. Harley; brass (copper alloy);
5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm); sold to Peabody Museum
of Natural History (Cambridge) by George W.
Harley ; No. 32-49-50/50.

Figure 001001 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia male figure with cane collected in 1930 by George W. Harley brass 8 1/4 in. (21 cm) Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology (Cambridge) No. 30-36-50/B4850

Figure 001001

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
male figure with cane; collected
in 1930 or before by George W. Harley; brass
(copper alloy); 8 1/4 in. (21 cm); Sold to Peabody
Museum of Natural History (Cambridge)
by George W. Harley; No. 30-36-50/B4850.

Figure 014001; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people / Liberia; female figure winnowng rice

Figure 014001

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
female figure winnowing rice; collected
by George Way Harley; brass
(copper alloy); 6 1/2 x 2 3/4 x 3 9/16 in (16.5 x 7 x 9 cm); Nasher Museum of Art
Object no. L.2.1974.116

Figure 013010; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; crocodile; brass

Figure 014002

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
crocodile; collected by George Way Harley;
brass (copper alloy); 1 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 1 1/2 in
(3.8 x 36.8 x 3.8 cm); Nasher Museum of Art;
Object no: L.2.1974.115

Walter Logan Fry

Collected by Walter Logan Fry, Cashier, Bank of Monrovia, Monrovia, Liberia, 1934-35. His assignment included auditing the work of the twelve bookkeepers and clerks; balancing the foreign exchange accounts; transferring funds by cable between Firestone's New York and London accounts.

His collection of six Ldamie figures was later expanded by his son, William Logan Fry, who added three more.

Figure 007001; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people / Liberia; female figure winnowing rice; collected in 1934-1935; by Walter Logan Fry; brass; 7 1/2 in.
(19 cm); Collection of William Logan Fry ; No. 007001

Figure 007001

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
female figure winnowing rice; collected
1934-1935 by Walter Logan Fry; brass
(copper alloy); 7 1/2 in. (19 cm).
collection of William Logan Fry.

Figure 007002 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people / Liberia; female figure carrying
water; collected in 1934-1935; by Walter Logan Fry;brass; 8 11/16 in. (22 cm); Collection of William Logan Fry; No. 007002

Figure 007002

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
female figure carrying water; collected
1934-1935 by Walter Logan Fry; brass
(copper alloy); 8 11/16 in. (22 cm).
collection of William Logan Fry.

Figure 007003; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people / Liberia; female figure
with machete; collected in 1934-1935 by Walter Logan Fry; brass; 8 in. (20.2 cm); Collection of William Logan Fry; No. 007003

Figure 007003

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
female figure with machete; collected
1934-1935 by Walter Logan Fry; brass
(copper alloy); 8 in. (20.2 cm).
collection of William Logan Fry.

Figure 007004; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio
people / Liberia female figure with leopard tooth necklace collected in 1934-1935 by Walter Logan Fry brass 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm) Collection of William Logan Fry No. 007004

Figure 007004

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
female figure with leopard tooth
necklace; collected 1934-1935 by
Walter Logan Fry; brass (copper alloy);
7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm). collection of
William Logan Fry.

Figure 007005 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; male figure with cane; collected in 1934-1935 by Walter Logan Fry; brass; 7 9/16 in. (19.1 cm); Collection of William Logan Fry; No. 007005

Figure 007005

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
male figure with cane; collected
1934-1935 by Walter Logan Fry;
brass (copper alloy); 7 9/16 in.
(19.1 cm). collection of
William Logan Fry.

Figure 007006; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; male figure with slit drum; collected in 1934-1935 by Walter Logan Fry; brass; 10 11/16 in. (27.1 cm); Collection of William Logan Fry; No. 007006

Figure 007006-a

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
male figure with slit drum; collected
1934-1935 by Walter Logan Fry; brass
(copper alloy); 10 11/16 in. (27.1 cm).
collection of William Logan Fry.

Figure 007006; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; male figure with slit drum; collected in 1934-1935 by Walter Logan Fry; brass; 10 11/16 in. (27.1 cm); Collection of William Logan Fry; No. 007006

Figure 007006-b

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
male figure with slit drum; collected
1934-1935 by Walter Logan Fry; brass
(copper alloy); 10 11/16 in. (27.1 cm).
collection of William Logan Fry.

Etta Becker-Donner

Collected by Etta Becker-Donner. Etta Donner was born in Vienna December 5, 1922. She studied ethnology and African linguistics at the University of Vienna. In 1934, Donner, then 22 years old, made her first trip to Liberia. She traveled alone, accompanied only by local guides and friends. She returned for further field work in 1936 - 1937. Among her writings was Kunst und Handwork in NO-Liberia (Arts and Crafts in Northeast Liberia) (Berlin 1939).

Figure 012004; Artist: Ldamie brass caster brass casting
Dan Gio people / Liberia; female figure with baby; collected in 1934-1935 by Etta Becker-Donner.
Figure 012004

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People /
Liberia; female figure with
baby; collected in 1934-35 by
Etta Becker-Donner; brass
(copper alloy); Etta Becker-
Donner "Kunst und Handwerk
in NO-Liberia"; p. 49.

Figure 012004; Artist: Ldamie brass caster brass casting
Dan Gio people / Liberia; female figure with baby; collected in 1936-1937 by Etta Becker-Donner.
Figure 012005

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People /
Liberia; female figure with
baby; collected in 1936-37 by
Etta Becker-Donner; brass
(copper alloy); Etta Becker-
Donner "Kunst und Handwerk
in NO-Liberia"; p. 49.

Liberia Ldamie brass figure
Figure 017001

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People /
Liberia; female figure with
baby; collected in 1936 by
Etta Becker-Donner; brass
(copper alloy);
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Ident No.: | | | C 35856

Figure 012001 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people
/ Liberia; female figure carrying water;
collected in 1934-1935; 8 7/16 in. (21.7 cm); Etta Becker-Donner

Figure 012001

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
female figure carrying water; collected
1934-35; brass (copper alloy); 8 7/16 in.
(21.5 cm); Etta Becker-Donner "Kunst
und Handwerk in NO-Liberia"; p. 50.

Liberia Ldamie brass figure

Figure 017002

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
female figure carrying water;
8 7/16 in. (21.7 cm) collected in 1936
by Etta Becker-Donner;
brass (copper alloy);
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Ident No.: | | | C 35857

Figure 018002 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; male figure with bound hands

Figure 018002

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
male figure with bound hands; collected
prior to 1936 by Etta Becker-Donner;
brass (copper alloy); collection of
Welt Museum Wien, Inv. No. 126145

Liberia Ldamie brass figure

Figure 018001

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
female figure pounding rice; collected in
1936 by Etta Becker-Donner; brass (copper
alloy), unfinished with sprues attached
Weltmueum Wien Inv. No. 126144

William Siegmann

Collected by William Siegmann.

William C. Siegmann had a long, distinguished career in studying and collecting art in Liberia. He served as curator or director of Africana Museum, Liberia, Museum of the Society of African Missions, and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. While curator at Brooklyn Museum from 1987 to 2007, Siegmann acquired over 1600 objects.

Figure 002001 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people
/ Liberia; female figure with machete

Figure 020001

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
female figure with machete; collected by
William Siegmann; brass (copper alloy);
7 3/4 in. (19.69 cm); collection of
Yale Art Gallery. Accession No. 2016.119.21

Liberia Ldamie brass figure
Figure 022001

Artist: Ldamie, Dan People / Liberia;
(attributed to Kran, We culture on site)
standing female figure; brass (copper alloy);
Purchase from William Siegmann; African
Art Museum of the SMA Fathers;
AHDRC Search No: 0158728

William Logan Fry

Collected by William Logan Fry.

William Logan Fry is a lawyer, farmer, weaver, digital artist, founder of The Digital Museum of Modern Art and filmmaker. He curates The Walter Logan Fry Collection of African Art; and followed in his father's footsteps in collecting the work of Ldamie.

Figure 0009002 Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan Gio people
/ Liberia; female figure carrying child;
collected by Walter Wilson, Firestone employee, 1926-30; 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm); Collection of William Logan Fry

Figure 009002

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
female figure carrying child; collected
1926-30 by Walter Wilson; brass (copper alloy);
7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm); collection of
William Logan Fry.

Figure 009001; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; male acrobats; collected in 1962 by Paolo Morigi; brass; 11 in. (28.5 cm); Collection of William Logan Fry;
No. 009001

Figure 009001

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
acrobats; collected in 1962 by
Paolo Morigi; brass (copper alloy);
11 in. (28.5 cm). Collection of
William Logan Fry

Figure 013007b; Ldamie brass caster brass casting Dan
Gio people / Liberia; Elephant; collected early 2000s by Dr. Christopher Steiner; brass

Figure 009003

Artist: Ldamie; Dan People / Liberia;
elephant; collected early 2000s by
Dr. Christopher Steiner; brass (copper
alloy); 3 1/2 in. (9 cm); collection of
William Logan Fry