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The Emotan Panel in the Penn Museum
09/2022 | 1434 | 164
Pages: 888-897
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Author:
Curnow, Kathy (Curnow, Kathy)
Subjects
artists:
Edokpolo, Isaac O
artists:
Danford, John Alexander
dates:
1960-1969
museums and institutions:
Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, United
places:
Nigeria / Benin
subjects:
Carvings / Wood sculpture / Plaques / Monarchy
subjects:
Africans / Iconography / African sculpture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Decorative plaque (the Emotan Panel), by Isaac O. Edokpolo. c.1959–66. Wood, 39 by 29.5 by 2 cm. (Penn Museum, Philadelphia).
Attributed works:
10. Detail of Fig.1, showing the medallion.
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11. Isaac O. Edokpolo’s business card. 9 by 7 cm. (Photograph Norma Wolff).
Attributed works:
12. Decorative plaque, by Isaac O. Edokpolo. Before 1966. Wood, approximately 38.53 by 26 cm. (Private collection; photograph Norma Wolff).
Attributed works:
2. Emotan, by John Alexander Danford. 1954. Bronze, height 182.9 cm. without base. (Photograph Barbara Blackmun, 1994).
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3. John Danford working on Emotan in his studio in Chelsea, London, 3rd April 1953. (Keystone Press; Alamy).
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4. A group of chiefs’ wives at a palace ceremony, their hair decorated with coral ornaments and brass feathers. 1994. (Photograph the author).
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5. The Emotan shrine as it appears today. (Photograph 21st June 2018, courtesy AllTimePost.com).
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6. The newly crowned O. ba of Benin Kingdom, Eheneden Erediauwa, is guided through a symbolic bridge by the palace chiefs during his coronation in Benin City, Nigeria, 20th October 2016. (Photograph Reuters / Akintunde Akinleye; Alamy).
Attributed works:
7. Decorative plaque, by Isaac O. Edokpolo. c.1960s. Wood, 30 by 28 cm. (Private collection; photograph Michael Graham Stewart).
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8. Carved container. Late 19th century. Coconut, height 12.7 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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9. Prototype medallion for the London Royal Society of Arts, by Thomas Pingo. 1790. Silver, diameter 4.4 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).