Human figure
- Museum number:
- 5-16283
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016283
- Alternate number:
- B-1143 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- Yoruba ivory head (irin Ifa, or Ela). (Purchased, Ibadan, 1965:95. $4.20.) Cf. 1147. H = 5.9cm; on pedestal base
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Materials:
- Ivory (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- width 2.5 centimeters, length 2.4 centimeters, and height 6 centimeters
- Images:
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