figure
- Museum number
- Af1949,46.222
- Description
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Male figure carved from wood.
- Production date
- 1908-1914 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 19.70 centimetres
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Width: 5.30 centimetres
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Depth: 5.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This figure was registered as 'Munchi' [Tiv], but was reattributed as possibly by the Idoma by W B Fagg. The Hives provenance suggests that Tiv is correct.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Acquisition notes
- The series Af1949,46.1 to 845 is the African part of the collection formed by the London dealer William Ockelford Oldman in the years ca.1894-1926, purchased from his widow in 1949. See his biography.
Nos.222 to 228 of the Oldman collection are recorded to have come from the Hives collection in June 1929.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1949,46.222