id:			155499
accession number:	1990.22
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.22
updated:		2025-05-06 12:06:30.330000

Memorial head (nsodie), late 1600s–early 1700s. Ghana, Akan-style sculpture, unknown female ceramicist. 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

title:				Memorial head (nsodie)
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creation date:			late 1600s–early 1700s
creation date earliest:		1675
creation date latest:		1725
current location:		108A Sub-Saharan
creditline:			Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund
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culture:	Ghana, Akan-style sculpture, unknown female ceramicist
technique:	Terracotta
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 19.1 x 13.6 x 15.5 cm (7 1/2 x 5 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		From the Earth through Her Hands: African Ceramics
	opening date:   2024-09-21T04:00:00
	<i>From the Earth through Her Hands: African Ceramics</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 21, 2024-September 21, 2025).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Arts Primitifs, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: by at least 1990
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1990–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. “Acquisitions: 1990.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>78, no. 2 (February 1991): 44, no. 62, repr. p. 36.
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	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/i25161312

	Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "The Cleveland Museum of Art." <em>African Arts</em> 30, no. 1 (1997): 66-71, p .68.
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	Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: Selected works of African Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003. Reproduced: cat. 20, p. 70 – 71.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. 20, p. 70 - 71
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	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 30-31
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IMAGES

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