ibeji
- Museum number
- Af1946,18.39
- Description
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Ibeji figure in form of a carved female with extended coiffure on a crescentic base.
- Production date
- 1946 (or earlier)
- Dimensions
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Height: 24 centimetres
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Width: 9.20 centimetres
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Depth: 7.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register for nos.39 and 340:
'Ibeji' figures by Adugbologe of Abeokuta.
Later annotation by W B Fagg: 'Probably not by him, but bought from him.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Acquisition notes
- Af1946,18.1 to 397 is a collection of contemporary objects purchased in Nigerian markets by H J Braunholtz, the Keeper of the Department of Ethnography in the BM, on a study visit in 1946. The Register contains his notes on the local name, function and place of acquisition of each item. See further comment on Af1946,18.1.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1946,18.39