id:			147844
accession number:	1974.205
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.205
updated:		2023-03-11 20:51:02.285000

Figure , 1800s. Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Akan-style artist. Terracotta; overall: 12.7 cm (5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White 1974.205

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creation date:			1800s
creation date earliest:		1800
creation date latest:		1899
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creditline:			Gift of Katherine C. White
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culture:	Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Akan-style artist
technique:	Terracotta
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 12.7 cm (5 in.)
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA 1968: "African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection," cat. no. 94 (incorrectly described), repr. on right above text for cat. 95.<br>CMA 1975: "Year in Review 1974," CMA Bulletin LXII (March, 1975), p. 97, no. 24<br>Kent, OH, Kent State University Art Gallery, "Leadership Arts of West Africa," September 15-October 15, 1993.

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A master female potter among the Asante created this clay sculpture to commemorate the departed. While not a naturalistic portrait, this figure depicts features associated with the dead person such as coiffure or facial marks. The rolls of flesh on the neck are a widespread artistic convention for beauty, prosperity, and well-being. After placing the memorial in a sacred forest clearing, family members invoked the spirit of the departed and asked it to accept the sculpture and facilitate communications with ancestors.
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