figurine
- Museum number
- Af1950,03.1
- Description
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Maternity figure; made of pottery; seated woman with hands resting at sides; skin painted red, eyes painted white.
- Dimensions
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Height: 29.90 centimetres
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Width: 9.70 centimetres
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Depth: 13 centimetres
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Depth: 17.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Register 1950:
It seems to be an ANKWE or GOEMAI household deity, MURI province (see MAN, 1929, no.87- Peake & Braunholtz).
Register 1950 later addition by W B Fagg:
By Azume, woman potter. cf. Af1947,29.1.
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(Note by Claude Ardouin, 2009)
Maternity figure
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2011 Feb-Jul, Los Angeles, Fowler Museum UCLA, Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley
2011 Sep-2012 Mar, Washington, National Museum of African Art, Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley
2012 Apr-Oct, Palo Alto, CA, Cantor Centre Stanford, Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley
2012 Nov-2013 Jan, Paris, Musee de Quai Branly, Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley
- Acquisition date
- 1950
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from G H Tucker
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1950,03.1
