Sculpture; kneeling figure; featureless face; hands meet at abdomen; height: ca 54 cm. altarpiece or tomb marker(?); "ancestor figure" ca. 1,500 A.D.; see accession envelope
Donor:
Mrs. Victor K. Zurcher and Victor K. Zurcher
Collection place:
Ife, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Nigeria; Ife (Murdock 31:25, 29)
Collection date:
pre-1969
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sculpture (visual works)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies