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Article
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).
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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).
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12. Decorative plaque, by Isaac O. Edokpolo. Before 1966. Wood, approximately 38.53 by 26 cm. (Private collection; photograph Norma Wolff).
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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).
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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).
Book Review
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collections and the British Empire
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
Pages: 823-825
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Reviewer:
Evans, Mark (Evans, Mark)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Nigeria / Asia
styles:
Benin (ancient Nigerian style)
subjects:
Looting / Colonialism / Stolen works of art / Ethnology / Museums / Collections / Military art and science
subjects:
Restitution
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collections and the British Empire Edited by Henrietta Lidchi and Stuart Allan. 344 pp. incl. 31 b. & w. ills. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020), £85. ISBN 978–1–5261–3920–7. | :
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Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes By Barnaby Phillips. 416 pp. incl. 15 col. + 26 b. & w. ills. (Oneworld Publications, London, 2021), £10.99. ISBN 978–0–86154–313–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Trophy head. Kumasi, Ghana, 18th or 19th century. Gold, height 20 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
Book Review
Embodiments. Masterworks of African Figurative Sculpture, C. Hellmich and M. Jordán, eds.
01/2016 | 1354 | 158
Pages: 044
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Author:
Picton, John (Picton, John)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
de Young Museum, San Francisco, United States
places:
Nigeria
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues / Sculpture / African / Nigerian / Figurative art
subjects:
Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Cultural history
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
52. Mother and child. Nineteenth century. Photograph taken in 1969 showing the sculpture with her drummer in the village of Eloyi (Afo), Nigeria (Richard H. Scheller Collection, California; photograph by Anna Craven, courtesy National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria).
Book Review
Mbari. Art and Life among the Owerri Igbo
12/1982 | 957 | 124
Pages: 779-780
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Author:
Muensterberger, Werner (Muensterberger, Werner)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
places:
Africa / United States / Nigeria / New York
subjects:
African / Anthropology
subjects:
Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept)
subjects:
Igbo / Mbari
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Mbari. Art and Life among the Owerri Igbo | author: Cole, Herbert M.
Article
Traditional Sculpture from the Colonies
08/1951 | 581 | 93
Pages: 258-260
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Author:
Murray, K. C. (Murray, K. C.)
Subjects
dates:
1950-1959
places:
Nigeria / Ife
subjects:
Sculpture / Anthropology / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept)
subjects:
Nigerian sculpture / Terracottas / Bronzes / Exhibitions
subjects:
African / Benin (ancient Nigerian style) / Nupe
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
11. Female Figure. Yoruba. Bronze, Height 76.2 cm. (Nigerian Government.)
Non-western art unattributed:
12. Two Ibeji Figures. Yoruba. Wood, Height about 25 cm.
Non-western art unattributed:
13. Head. Yoruba,? Thirteenth Century. Bronze, Height 24.8 cm. (The Oni of Ife.)
Non-western art unattributed:
14. Animal Mask. Probably from the Gold Coast. Wood, Height 44.4 cm.
Short Notice
Traditional Art of the British Colonies
08/1949 | 557 | 91
Pages: 229-230
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Author:
Plass, Margaret (Plass, Margaret)
Subjects
dates:
1940-1949
places:
England / Africa / Nigeria
subjects:
African / Benin (ancient Nigerian style) / Nigerian / Exhibitions
Article
Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron, Southern Nigeria
11/1947 | 536 | 89
Pages: 310+312-315
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Author:
Murray, K. C. (Murray, K. C.)
Subjects
dates:
1900-1949
places:
Africa / Nigeria / Oron
subjects:
Ekpu / African / Sculpture
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. A-Head of Ekpu. Height, 43 cm. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. B-Ekpu from a Shed at Uya Oron. Height, 135 cm. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. C-Head of Ekpu at Itak Uyo Oti. Height, 38 cm. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. D-Two Ekpu, in 1939 Outside a House at Udung Ukor. Now Destroyed. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. E-Head of Ancient Ekpu in a Shed at Eyo Abassi. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. F-Head of Ekpu at Ukb Uda. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. A-Two Ekpu from a Shed at Mbukpu Village. Height of the Larger, about 122 cm. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. B-Ekpu from a Shed at Mbukpu Village. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. C-Group of Twenty-One Ekpu Lying in the Open. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
Article
Two Examples of Nigerian Wood-Carving
06/1943 | 483 | 82
Pages: 146-147+149
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Author:
Bunt, Cyril G. E. (Bunt, Cyril G. E.; Bunt, Cyril E. G.)
Subjects
dates:
1850-1899
places:
Africa / Nigeria / Benin
subjects:
Sculpture / Carvings
subjects:
Furniture
subjects:
Yoruba
subjects:
Christian iconography / Byzantine art / Influence
subjects:
Nigerian sculpture / Nigerian
subjects:
Benin (ancient Nigerian style)
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
A-Wood Coffer, Carved from a Single Block. From Benin, about 1891. Decorated with the Dual Twist and Non-Terminous Plait-Motives. Height, 67 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum). Two Examples of Nigerian Wood-Carving
Non-western art unattributed:
B-Ceremonial Stool of Carved Wood, from Benin, Late Nineteenth Century. Decorated with the Dual Twist, Non-Terminous Plait and Ribbon-Cross. Height, 42 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum). Two Examples of Nigerian Wood-Carving
Article
The Stone Figures of Esie in Nigeria
02/1943 | 479 | 82
Pages: 31-36
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Author:
Meyerowitz, Eva L. R. (Meyerowitz, Eva L. R.)
Subjects
places:
Africa / Nigeria
places:
Esie
subjects:
African / Yoruba / Sculpture / Folklore / Social history
subjects:
Statues / Iconography / Human figure
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. A-The Stone Figures of Esie as They Were Seen from the Entrance to the Grove. The Stone Figures of Esie in Nigeria
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. B-The Priest of Esie Paying Homage to the Figure of the King Which Can be Seen at the End of the Horse-Shoe-Like Space. The Stone Figures of Esie in Nigeria
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. A-The Figure of the King. The Stone Figures of Esie in Nigeria
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. B-Female Figure. The Stone Figures of Esie in Nigeria
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. C-Figure Showing the Nupe Tribal Mark. The Stone Figures of Esie in Nigeria
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. D-Figure Showing Nupe Tribal Mark upon a Background of Oblique Cuts. The Stone Figures of Esie in Nigeria
Article
Ancient Nigerian Bronzes
10/1942 | 475 | 81
Pages: 250+252-254
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Author:
Palmer, Richmond (Palmer, Richmond)
Subjects
dates:
0800-0899 / 0950-0999 / 1000-1099
places:
Nigeria
subjects:
Nigerian / Nigerian sculpture / Bronzes / Jebba / Tada / Nupe
subjects:
Gods / Iconography
subjects:
Yoruba
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
A-The Gago of Tada. Height 112 cm. (Sacred Hut at Tada). Ancient Nigerian Bronzes
Non-western art unattributed:
B-Detail of A. Ancient Nigerian Bronzes
Non-western art unattributed:
C-Female Figure. (Jebba Island). Ancient Nigerian Bronzes
Non-western art unattributed:
D-Warrior. (Jebba Island). Ancient Nigerian Bronzes
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