Memorial head (nsodie)
late 1600s-early 1700s
Maker Unknown
African Art
Memorial head (nsodie), late 1600s-early 1700s. Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Akan-style artist. Terracotta; overall: 19.1 x 13.6 x 15.5 cm (7 1/2 x 5 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund 1990.22 The woman who sculpted this head did so without making a sketch, working from her memory of the subject.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- Terracotta
- Medium
- terracotta
- Dimensions
- Overall: 19.1 x 13.6 x 15.5 cm (7 1/2 x 5 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
- Departments
- African Art
- Accession Number
- 1990.22
- Credit Line
- Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 108C Akan & Yoruba
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