id:			159000
accession number:	1995.21
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.21
updated:		2024-09-21 11:04:11.625000

Head, thermoluminescence date 20–620 CE. Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Nok-culture style region, unknown maker. Terracotta; overall: 38.2 x 20 cm (15 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1995.21

title:				Head
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creation date:			thermoluminescence date 20–620 CE
creation date earliest:		20
creation date latest:		620
current location:		108A Sub-Saharan
creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Nok-culture style region, unknown maker
technique:	terracotta
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 38.2 x 20 cm (15 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		From the Earth through Her Hands: African Ceramics (African art rotation)
	opening date:   2024-09-21T04:00:00
	<i>From the Earth through Her Hands: African Ceramics (African art rotation)</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

	(Emile Deletaille Antiquaire, Brussels, Belgium, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1995
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			* <div><!--block-->Emile Deletaille owned this piece by at least 1994. See correspondence 1994-95 between him and Margaret Young-Sánchez; transit paperwork 11-30-94 in curatorial file.</div>
			
			
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1995
	date: 1995
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Young-Sánchez, Margaret. “An Enigmatic Terracotta.” In <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 36, no. 2 (February 1996): 9.
	page number: 	p. 9
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1996-02/page/8

	Wilkins, David G., Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn M. Linduff. <em>Art Past, Art Present</em>. 3rd ed. New York: Prentice Hall, 1997, 42, fig. 2-7.
	page number: 	p. 42, fig. 2-7
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	Young-Sánchez, Margaret. "The Cleveland Museum of Art." In <em>African Arts</em> 30, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 69.
	page number: 	p. 69
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	Wilkins, David G., Bernard Schultz, and Katheryn M. Linduff. <em>Art Past, Art Present.</em> 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001, 28, fig. 2-7.
	page number: 	p. 28, fig. 2-7
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	Donley, Gregory M., "A New Face for African Art", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 42 no. 04, April 2002
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6-7
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2002-04/page/n5

	Petridis, Constantine. <em>South of the Sahara: Selected Works of African Art. </em>Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003, 87, color plate 28.
	page number: 	p. 87, color plate 28
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	Wilkins David G, et al. <em>Art Past, Art Present.</em> 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005, 28, fig. 2-7.
	page number: 	p. 42, fig. 2-7
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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. 32
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