Zemanek-Münster

Maternité ·  Nigéria, Igbo · ID: 3043908

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Provenance
Gerd Hanebeck, Wuppertal, Germany

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.


Littérature comparée

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Erde und Erz, München 1997, p. 255, ill. 496


Publications

AHDRC: 0153521


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