figure
- Museum number
- Af1957,09.1
- Description
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Register 1957:
Wooden carved figure, male, with separtely carved arms, and feet missing, with a piece of knitting hanging from his head; coloured black on one half of the body; the other a lighter colour.
- Production date
- 1877 (or earlier)
- Dimensions
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Height: 138 centimetres
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Width: 34 centimetres
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Depth: 58 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1957:
"Said to represent the son of Katenga, the deified ancestor of King Ockiya of Brass. WESTERN IJO, NIGER DELTA."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1957
- Acquisition notes
- Af1957,09.1 and 2 were sold by the Church Missionary Society at Sotheby's sale of 18.3.1957, lots 189 and190, and were purchased at the sale by the British Museum for £68. They had been collected by the CMS in 1877.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1957,09.1