About this artwork
Among the Igbo, pottery and ceramic sculpture is the domain of women. Terracotta figures can accompany shrines in a wide variety of contexts, including at compound entrances, outside of houses, in domestic gardens, and in small shrine houses. This figure and another one of a seated woman are undoubtedly the work of a single artist [see 2003.84]. The man is seated on a cylindrical stool. He wears a necklace with three large beads and holds a dagger in his hand.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Arts of Africa
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Culture
- Igbo
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Title
- Shrine Figure (Ntkekpe)
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Place
- Nigeria (Object made in:)
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Date
- 1925–1975
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Medium
- Terracotta and iron
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Dimensions
- 71.1 × 45.7 × 33 cm (28 × 18 × 13 in.)
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Credit Line
- Samuel P. Avery Endowment and Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson
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Reference Number
- 2003.83
Extended information about this artwork
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