African Head/Dahomy Princess 1928-29
![Dora Gordine, African Head/Dahomy Princess, bronze,1928-29](https://www.dorichhousemuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2016/03/African-Head-1928-edit-web.jpg)
This work was completed while Gordine was living and working in Paris in the 1920s; it was exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries in Paris in 1929. Dahomy was a kingdom of West Africa, now part of Benin, but the model was a young woman from Senegal. Her name is unknown.