Maternity · Nigeria, Igbo · ID: 3043908
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Provenance
Gerd Hanebeck, Wuppertal, GermanySize
H: 39 cm
H: 15.4 inch
Description
terracotta, reddish coating, base
This figure presumably was part of a shrine. The figures posted there were called “ntekpe” and they were looked upon as “children” of the shrine and it´s deity. Their function was to protect the inhabitants of the house and to help when needed.
The object Maternity with the object ID 3043908 was last part of the auction 89th Tribal Art Auction at July 7, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 111.
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Comparing literature
Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Erde und Erz, München 1997, p. 255, ill. 496
Publications
AHDRC: 0153521