Statue
AF5122
Location: On Display in the Africa Galleries
From: Ghana (uncertain) | Nigeria (uncertain) | Gold Coast
Curatorial Section: African
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| Object Number |
AF5122 |
| Current Location |
Africa Galleries - On Display |
| Culture |
Ijo |
| Provenience |
Ghana (uncertain) | Nigeria (uncertain) | Gold Coast |
| Locus |
Brass (port) |
| Date Made |
1801-1900 CE |
| Section |
African |
| Materials |
Wood |
| Iconography |
Woman |
| Description |
Seated female with large, crested coiffure. Arms rendered separately, now missing. |
| Height |
83.5 cm |
| Width |
12.7 cm |
| Depth |
12.7 cm |
| Credit Line |
Purchased from Vignier, 1919 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Drewal, Henry J. Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diaspora. Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2008. See: p. 39, fig. 17 |
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| Anderson, Martha G., and Philip M. Peek. Ways of the River: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta. Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2002. See: p.66, fig. 2.1 |
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| Wardwell, Allen. African Sculpture from the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1986. See: pp. 76-77, fig. 26 |
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| Willett, Frank. African Art. Thames & Hudson, 1971. Page/Fig./Plate: 288 See: p.89, fig. 67 |
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| Plass, Margaret B. "African Negro Sculpture: A Walk Through the Gallery." The University Museum Bulletin 21, no. 4. ( Dec 1957): 5-76. See: p. 47 |
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| Hall, Henry U. "Fetish Figures of Equatorial Africa." The Museum Journal 11, no. 1. (1920): 27-55. See: p. 48, fig. 29 |
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| Biro, Yaëlle. "African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde: Exhibition Overview." Tribal Art Magazine no. 3. (2012): 10-19. See: p.16, fig. 11 |
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| Guide to the Collections, The University Museum. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1965. See: p. 115 |
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