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Object Number:AF2062
Current Location: Africa Galleries
Currently On Display
Culture:Edo (Africa)
Provenience: Nigeria
Benin Kingdom
Date Made: 19th century
Early Date: 1800
Late Date: 1899
Section:African
Materials:Copper Alloy
Bronze
Technique:Lost Wax Casting
Iconography:Human Head
Height: 38 cm
Width: 25 cm
Depth: 25 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1912
Other Number:29557 | 29559 - Dealer's Number

Description

Commemorative Head representation of the Ọba. Wearing a beaded crown with flower-shaped ornaments and two projections at the sides, beaed extension that cross over eyes, single large bead hangs from center lower rim of crown, braids decorated with beads hang from sides and back. Wearing an (odigba) stacked beaded collar from neck to lower lip . Flang at base has in flat relief an elephant trunk ending in human hand cluching leaves, rams head, and thunderbolt on guilloche pattern.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

African Negro Sculpture (1957 - 1957) View Objects in Exhibition
African Gallery (1990 - Aug 1995) View Objects in Exhibition
Africa Galleries: From Maker To Museum (16 Nov 2019) View Objects in Exhibition
African Gallery (1987 - 1990) View Objects in Exhibition
African Gallery ( Aug 1995 - 11 Sep 2018) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Article] Hall, Henry U. 1920. "Fetish Figures of Equatorial Africa". The Museum Journal. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 11. no. 1. pg. 27-55 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 44, fig. 25View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Plass, Margaret B. Dec 1957. "African Negro Sculpture: A Walk Through the Gallery". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 21. no. 4. pg. 5-76 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 26View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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