Female Figure | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 900–300 B.C.E.

Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: 18 × 6 1/2 × 6 in. (45.72 × 16.51 × 15.24 cm)
Credit Line: Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
Accession Number: 2006.51.115
Geography: Nigeria
Culture: Nok
Period: 4th–10th century B.C.
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Possibly Mourtala Diop, New York and Senegal; Charles B. Benenson Collection, Greenwich, Conn.; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
This work appears on our "Antiquities and Archaeological Material with Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.

Bibliography

Frederick John Lamp, Amanda Maples, and Laura M. Smalligan, Accumulating Histories: African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012), 133, ill

"Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," in "Photography at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006), 222

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations)

Subject

women

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