Gallery Location
Not currently on view
- Artist/Maker
- Currently unknown artist or artists (Yorùbá style)
- Title
- Pair of Twin Memorial Figures (àwon ere Ibéjì)
- Date
- around 1940
- Material & Process
- Wood and copper
- Dimensions
- 1) 10 3/16 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.; 2) 10 1/8 x 3 3/8 x 3 1/2 in. Overall
- Credit
- J. David and Laura Seefried Horsfall Endowment Fund purchase
- Inventory No.
- 1991.30.1-2
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Location
- Nigeria
Related
between 1989 and 1991, sold by Tony Okoroafor (Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria) to dealer David A. Ackely (Ypsilanti, MI); 1991, sold by David A. Ackely (Ypsilanti, MI) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called the Chazen Museum of Art]
- Exhibition gallery guide, "Revealing Forms: African Art from the Elvehjem Collection." 2002.
- Drewal, Henry John. "African Art at the Elvehjem." Bulletin/Biennial Report 2001-2003. Elvehjem Museum of Art (2003): 16-36. pp. 16-36
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 7, No. 4, Sept/Oct 1991.
- Revealing Forms: African Art from the Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/20/2002–6/16/2002
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