panel;
sculpture
- Museum number
- Af1946,12.1
- Description
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Register 1946:
Wooden carved panel, two men chasing a large snake biting a tortoise.
- Production date
- 1929
- Dimensions
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Height: 29 centimetres
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Width: 59.90 centimetres
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Depth: 4.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Af1946,12.1 to 7 belong together and were carved by Dada Areogun in 1929.
See Register 1946: 'Carved mahogany panels depicting mythological and other subjects. Yoruba style, from Iddo, Ekiti division, Ondo Province. Nigeria.'
The Ekiti are a sub-group of the Yoruba.
Register addition by W B Fagg after 1954:
Vendor's information (see correspondence) was that these were carved for a friend of his in 1929 by the last of the court carvers of Iddo, then over 80 and blind in one eye. My inquiries of the present Olojudo of Iddo in 1950 showed that there was probably no such person; the panels were almost certainly carved by Arowogun [Areogun] of Osi (then c. 55 years old), who carved two doors still to be seen in the Afin at Iddo. Three doors probably carved by him have been acquired from the Wellcome Museum. [Af1954,23.208.a-c].
See Ethdoc 282
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Acquisition notes
- Af1946,12.1 to 7 were purchased from W G Wormal of Middleton-on-Sea, Sussex.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1946,12.1