Image
Description
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.351
- Title
- Human Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Namji
- Artist Nationality
- Cameroonian
- Medium and Support
- carved wood, string and human hair
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Object Creation Place
- Africa
- Cameroon
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
- Dimensions
- 47 cm x 18.1 cm x 8.5 cm (18 1/2 in. x 7 1/8 in. x 3 3/8 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
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Sculpture
- Physical Description
- Carved wooden figure of a human form. String atatched to the head to represent hair.
- Subject Matter
- Dolls serve two related functions: they are power objects used to increase a woman's fertility, and they are dolls for girls to practice caring for children. The two are related, as the ability for a woman to care for a child is thought to be linked to her biological fertility.
- Primary Keywords
- dolls
- fertility dolls
- figures
- representation
- standing
- toys
- Secondary Keywords
- visual arts
- artistic concepts
- associated concepts
- concepts in the arts
- figurines
- forms of expression
- healing
- objects we use
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- sculpture
- sculpture by subject type
- statues
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Rights
- If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit http://www.umma.umich.edu/collections/resources.html for more information and to fill out the online Image Rights and Reproductions Request Form.
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Collection Access
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10750 images are available with authorization; descriptions are openly available.
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- Add to Portfolio
- In public portfolios
- A - Health and Medicine Traditions items: 19, owner: hanmcm dchoberk kholihan mstang eveba rnhuff lgialane ralomi apassiak
- Faces Figures items: 111, owner: rekeffer
- Faces Figures unrestricted items: 60, owner: rekeffer
- Health, illness, medicine items: 24, owner: dchoberk drozda akgamble kholihan mstang eveba rnhuff hanmcm lgialane ralomi apassiak
System Metadata
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Image Size
- 607 x 1377
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Record
- 1997/1.351
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Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
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