Carving. Standing female figure on self-base. Figure wears short skirt that coves in front and back. Hands are attached by fingers at hips. Protruding belly button. No facial scars or pupils. Eyes are heavily lidded. Neck is thick. Ears are scallop-shaped, no piercing. Hair is braided on both sides of the head (left area behind ear is not complete). Hair peaks up on top like a rooster's comb. Small ponytail at the nape of the neck. Signed on the bottom with a triangle. 24 cm tall
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Abeokuta, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba; Abeokuta
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works) and Ere ibeji
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
December 15, 1995
Context of use:
Traditionally carved upon the death of a twin or twins.