Gallery Location
Not currently on view
- Artist/Maker
- Currently unknown artist or artists (Yorùbá style)
- Title
- Cowrie Garment (èwù ìlè kè) for Twin Memorial Figure (ere Ibéjì)
- Date
- early 20th century
- Material & Process
- Cowrie shells, plant fiber, and leather
- Dimensions
- 7 3/8 x 14 1/4 in. Overall
- Credit
- Gift of Diane R. Wedner and Ron M. Ziskin
- Inventory No.
- 1999.133.9.2
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Location
- Nigeria
Related
December 1999, gifted by Diane Wedner and Ron Ziskin (Toluca Lake, CA) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
- Whirling Return of the Ancestors: Egúngún Arts of the Yorùbá and Beyond: Ruth Davis Design Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1/22/2018–4/8/2018
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