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- Title
- Ancestor figure (female in Manda style)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Tabwa
- Physical Description
- Carved wooden figure of a human. The torso, neck and head make an elongated cylinder along the certical axis. The hands rest at its sides near the umbilicus. The hair, face, hands, genitals, and feet are detailed.
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.157.1
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 14.42453
- Primary Keywords
- ancestor figures
- females
- figures
- figures (representations)
- nudes
- standing
- tabwa
- women
- Title
- Ancestor figure (male in Manda style)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Tabwa
- Physical Description
- Carved wood figure of a human. The figure's torso, neck, and head are cyclindrical and elongated on the vertical axis. The figure's arms rest by its umbilicus, which protrudes slightly. Details of the hair, face, hands, genitals, and feet are carved in. The figure is incised with symmetrical, zigzag-ing lines.
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.157.3
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 14.42453
- Primary Keywords
- ancestor figures
- figures
- figures (representations)
- males
- men
- nudes
- standing
- tabwa
- Title
- Ancestor figure (female in Manda style)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Tabwa
- Physical Description
- Carved wooden figure of a human. The torso, neck and head make an elongated cylinder along the certical axis. The hands rest at its sides near the umbilicus. The hair, face, hands, genitals, and feet are detailed.
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1920
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.157.2
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 14.42453
- Primary Keywords
- ancestor figures
- females
- figures
- figures (representations)
- nudes
- standing
- tabwa
- women
- Title
- Ancestral Shrine Figure (Male)
- Artist
- African, Nigeria, Ibo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1940
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.87
- Medium and Support
- carved wood
- relevance
- rank 13.98897
- Primary Keywords
- ancestor figures
- ancestors
- males
- men
- nudes
- reliquary figures
- standing
- Title
- Ancestral Figure
- Artist
- Melanesian, New Guinean, Papua, Sepik River
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1971/2.50
- Medium and Support
- painted wood, feathers, shell and fiber
- relevance
- rank 13.98897
- Primary Keywords
- ancestor figures
- bust-length
- child
- figures
- portraits
- self-portrait
- woman
- Title
- Ancestral Shrine Figure (Female)
- Artist
- African, Nigeria, Ibo
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1940
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.142
- Medium and Support
- carved inoko wood and kaolin
- relevance
- rank 13.96692
- Primary Keywords
- ancestor figures
- ancestors
- carvings
- females
- figures (representations)
- nudes
- shrines
- woodwork
- Title
- Sculpture for Jo or Gwa Society
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Bamana
- Century
- Probably 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1971/2.16
- Medium and Support
- carved wood
- relevance
- rank 13.91998
- Primary Keywords
- ancestor figures
- ancestors
- figures (representations)
- standing
- woodwork
- Title
- Ancestor Figure
- Artist
- Melanesian, New Guinea, Asmat
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1971/2.52
- Medium and Support
- wood
- relevance
- rank 13.87259
- Primary Keywords
- ancestor figures
- standing
- Title
- Two Beauties
- Artist
- Kikugawa Eizan
- Artist Life Dates
- 1787-1867
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1810
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.287
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 13.42488
- Primary Keywords
- ancestor figures
- book
- costume
- japan
- standing
- Title
- Female Ancestor Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Dogon
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1971
- Accession Number
- 1971/2.24
- Medium and Support
- carved wood, patination, blood, millet, egg shell
- relevance
- rank 13.14212
- Primary Keywords
- ancestor figures
- ancestors
- females
- figurines
- standing
- statues
- women
- Title
- Onoe Kikujirô II as Mondo's Wife, Oyasu; from Sumidagawa tsui no kagamon
- Artist
- Utagawa Toyokuni III (Kunisada)
- Artist Life Dates
- 1786-1864
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1852
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.286
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 13.00516
- Primary Keywords
- ancestor figures
- clothed
- costume
- folding screen
- forms
- japan
- window
- Title
- Commemorative Head of an Oba of the Benin kingdom
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Benin
- Physical Description
- Cast brass head of a human. An opening at the top would have supported a carved elephant tusk. The heads wears elaborate "winged" headgear.
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.260
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 12.07518
- Primary Keywords
- ancestor figures
- bronze (metal)
- heads
- heads (representations)
- king
- royalty
- shrines