Funerary Head, between 19th and 20th century

  • Akan, African

Terracotta

  • Overall: 11 × 7 1/8 × 5 3/4 inches (27.9 × 18.1 × 14.6 cm)

Gift of Justice and Mrs. G. Mennen Williams

74.223

Karl Heinz Krieg (Germany). Justice and Mrs. G. Mennen Williams

1975-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Detroit Collects African Art. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, April 21 - May 29, 1977, no. 50 (ill). Quarcoopome, Nii. “Akan Funerary Arts in Terra-cotta,” Bulletin of the DIA 91, 1-4 (2017): p. 79 (fig. 4.5a-b).

Akan, African, Funerary Head, between 19th and 20th century, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Justice and Mrs. G. Mennen Williams, 74.223.