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Ivory female figurine with manillas
Object Number 16-43-50/B1479
Display Title Ivory female figurine with manillas
Descriptions
Object Description Ivory figurine of scarified, elaborately coiffed female wearing beads at neck, arms, ankles, and hips.
Inventory Description Statue, carved ivory, standing female, incised body designs, beads and hair
Classification
  • Statue
Department Ethnographic
Date 16th century - 18th century
Culture
  • Benin
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Nigeria
Additional Geographic Terms West Africa
Materials Elephant ivory
Dimensions Overall: 38 x 10.5 x 9 cm (14 15/16 x 4 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object B1479
Credit Line Gift of Oric Bates, 1916
Provenance
Collector British Punitive Force (1897)
Dealer William O. Oldman
Donor Mr. Oric Bates (1916)

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