vessel
- Museum number
- Af1948,02.12
- Description
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Pottery vessel with strap handle decoration and one side a figure of a seated woman wearing apron. Figure and pot decorated with incised lines and fingernail marks.
- Production date
- 16thC - 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 34 centimetres
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Width: 29 centimetres
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Depth: 30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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This pot is from a woman's shrine to the god Olokun and is associated with her fertility. It must be kept filled with river water. It has the form of a pregnant woman.
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Register 1948:
Pottery vessel with strap handle decoration & one side a figure of a seated woman wearing apron. Figure & pot decorated with incised lines & fingernail marks.
EDO tribes, S-W. NIGERIA.
- Location
- On display (G25/dc23)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1970-1973, London, Museum of Mankind, Divine Kingship in Africa
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Acquisition notes
- Af1948,02.1 to 18 were purchased from W F C Ohly, partly through exchange.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1948,02.12
