| Object Number |
AF5078 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Ishan | Edo (Africa) |
| Provenience |
Nigeria | Benin Kingdom |
| Culture Area |
Ishan | Edo (Africa) |
| Creator |
Ishan |
| Date Made |
19th century CE |
| Section |
African |
| Materials |
Wood |
| Technique |
Carved |
| Iconography |
Antelope? | Goat? |
| Description |
Carved wooden goat or antelope's head originally attached to a post, apparently as head. Long cylindrical neck carved with strips of diagonal lines alternating directions. Long vertical ears carved in feather pattern. |
| Height |
38.4 cm |
| Width |
10.9 cm |
| Depth |
12.5 cm |
| Credit Line |
Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1921 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Hall, Henry U. "Great Benin Royal Altar." The Museum Journal 13, no. 2. (1922): 105-168. See: p. 165, fig. 76 |
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| Plass, Margaret B. African Tribal Sculpture. The University Museum, 1956. See: p. 30 |
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| Plass, Margaret B. "African Negro Sculpture: A Walk Through the Gallery." The University Museum Bulletin 21, no. 4. ( Dec 1957): 5-76. See: p. 33 |
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| Plass, Margaret B. "The Art of Benin." Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 1, no. 4. (1959). See: p. 6, fig. 5 |
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| de la Burde, Roger. "Ancestral Ram's Heads of the Edo-Speaking Peoples." African Arts 6, no. 1. (1972): 28-34. See: p. 33, fig. 12 |
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| Wardwell, Allen. African Sculpture from the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1986. See: p. 67, fig. 21 |
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| Dougherty, Frank. "African Sculpture, in Philadelphia Daily News." . (21 Nov 1986): 1-15. See: A5, A11 |
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| Curnow, Kathy. Iyare! Splendor and Tension In Benin's Palace Theatre. 2016. See: pp. 188-189 |
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| Curnow, Kathy. Guide to the Benin Collection at the Penn Museum. Philadelphia: Questor | UPMAA, 2024. Page/Fig./Plate: 132 See: p. 75, fig. 85 |
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