Artist Aowin, African
Title
  • Funerary Head
Date between 19th and 20th century
Medium Terracotta
Dimensions Overall: 6 × 5 1/2 × 4 inches (15.2 × 14 × 10.2 cm)
Credit Line Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
Accession Number 70.2
Department Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
On View African: Journey of Life N105, Level 1 (see map)
estate of Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969];
1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
African Terracottas South of the Sahara. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, November 22, 1972-January 21, 1973, no. 87.

Quarcoopome, Nii. “Akan Funerary Arts in Terra-cotta,” Bulletin of the DIA 91, 1-4 (2017): p. 79 (fig. 4.6a-b).