figure
- Museum number
- Af1927,1108.9
- Description
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Bronze figure of a horse with naked male rider.
- Production date
- 1914-1927 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 19.20 centimetres
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Width: 4.30 centimetres
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Depth: 17.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Ethdoc 253 - Brass figures from the Mbatiav Clan of the Tiv (Munshi) by C C Feasey, 9.11.1927
Method of manufacture: A model is made of wild rubber, a ball of which is dipped alternately into boiling and cold water until pliable, pieces are cut off and the head, neck &c. modelled separately and then assembled. A stick of rubber the thickness of a pencil and about one inch long is affixed to the back of the model, and a clay bowl is made, with a small hole at the base for the stick, and plastered on: the earth for the bowl being ground before use.
The bowl is filled with pieces of brass, a layer of leaves placed on top and the whole enclosed in a clay ball, which is placed in a mud oven and heated with bellows for a little over two hours. The ball is then taken out, cooled with water and the clay is chipped off revealing the brass figure inside. The pencil stick, now solid brass, is filed off and the completed figure remains.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1927
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on Af1927,1108.1
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1927,1108.9