Title:
Grave Marker, Clay or Terracotta Head
Object Name:
Grave Marker
Other Name:
Grave Marker, Head, Clay
Place of Origin:
Akan, Ghana, Africa
Provenance:
Aboriginal Indigenous Art.
H = 11"
W = 6"
D = 6"
Akan head, was probably used either as a grave marker, or to receive offerings.
Bacquart, P. 35
Memorial terracottas were created by female artists to honor deceased chiefs and other important elders, both male and female.
400 year history of terracotta funerary sculpture.
H = 11"
W = 6"
D = 6"
Akan head, was probably used either as a grave marker, or to receive offerings.
Bacquart, P. 35
Memorial terracottas were created by female artists to honor deceased chiefs and other important elders, both male and female.
400 year history of terracotta funerary sculpture.
Description:
Hollow hand—fashioned grave marker head, with crescent—shaped ears low on head. Round forehead with series of knobs near hairline in bas—relief, red buff clay with white calcification in the crevices. Coffeebean slit eyes, crescent—shaped small mouth, cylindrical ringed neck.
Collection:
Finley Collection
Material:
Clay or Terracotta
Used:
Ritually Used
Technique:
Pottery
Owned:
Art Department, Missouri Southern State University
Accession#:
2014.1.94
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