Kneeling Maternity Figure with a Bowl in the Shape of a Chicken (Olúmèye)

early 20th century

On view, 1st floor, African Art

Medium: Wood and pigment
Dimensions: 15 3/4 × 10 7/16 × 9 1/4 in. (40 × 26.5 × 23.5 cm)
Credit Line: Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
Accession Number: 2006.51.542
Geography: possibly Efon-Alaye, Eketi, Nigeria
Culture: Yorùbá, Èkìti subgroup
Period: 20th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Jay C. Leff, Uniontown, Pennsylvania. M. Alder, 1973. Charles B. Benenson Collection, donated to Yale University Art Gallery in 2004

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), 75, 300, fig. 19.

"Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006): 222.

Art of Black Africa: Collection of Jay C. Leff, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1969), no. 211, fig. 211.

African Tribal Art from the Jay C. Leff Collection, exh. cat. (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida, March 5, 1967- March 26, 1967), no. 39, fig. 39.

African Sculpture from the Collection of Jay C. Leff, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Primitive Art, November 25, 1964- Febuary 7, 1965), no. 4, ill.

Exotic Art: from Ancient and Primitive Civilizations, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1959), n.p., no. 333.

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Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations), sculpture

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