Object Number | 68-2-2 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Ashanti |
Provenience | Ghana |
Section | African |
Materials | Ceramic |
Iconography | Human |
Description | Commemorative (ancestor) bust, perhaps once lid of pottery urn containing remains; ovaloid flattened head; raised coffee-bean eyes and mouth; hooked nose with nostrils indicated; raised indications of hair styling including broad semi-circle delimiting forehead; left ear and small projection at top of head damaged; elongated 6-ringed neck with sub-hemi-spherical base; back roughly finished and concave; splatted with black. |
Length | 30 cm |
Width | 15.5 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Mr. Baba Kaban, 1968 |
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