About the Artwork
Memorial Head
18th century
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African
Fante
Terracotta
Overall: 9 1/8 × 5 3/8 × 6 1/8 inches (23.2 × 13.7 × 15.6 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Museum Purchase, Friends of African and African American Art Fund
2002.178
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Albert Nuamah (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
2002-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Quarcoopome, Nii. “Akan Funerary Arts in Terra-cotta.” Bulletin of the DIA 91, 1/4 (2017): p. 80 (fig. 4.7a-b).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Fante, African, Memorial Head, 18th century, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Friends of African and African American Art Fund, 2002.178.
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