Pottery

Sculpture

68-2-2

From: Ghana

Curatorial Section: African

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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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