[FONT=Arial,Geneva,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]In a move that surprised the museum director and curators alike, Walt Disney World Co. donated its 525-piece Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art (NMAfA). The collection includes such pieces as dramatic and realistic masks from the Lower Cross River State in Nigeria and an extremely rare ivory hunting horn from Sierra Leone that dates back to the late 1400s.
“We already have five masks and Disney-Tishman has five,” says NMAfA curator collections Bryna Freyer. “Now we have a world class collection.” In February 2007, the museum plans to display 100 traditional and contemporary pieces from the collection, with plans to tour other museums in the future. For more information, call (202) 633-4600 or visit www.nmafa.si.edu[/SIZE][/FONT]
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“We already have five masks and Disney-Tishman has five,” says NMAfA curator collections Bryna Freyer. “Now we have a world class collection.” In February 2007, the museum plans to display 100 traditional and contemporary pieces from the collection, with plans to tour other museums in the future. For more information, call (202) 633-4600 or visit www.nmafa.si.edu[/SIZE][/FONT]
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