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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
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Plate I. B-Ekpu from a Shed at Uya Oron. Height, 135 cm. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
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Plate I. C-Head of Ekpu at Itak Uyo Oti. Height, 38 cm. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
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Plate I. D-Two Ekpu, in 1939 Outside a House at Udung Ukor. Now Destroyed. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
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Plate I. E-Head of Ancient Ekpu in a Shed at Eyo Abassi. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
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Plate I. F-Head of Ekpu at Ukb Uda. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
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Plate II. A-Two Ekpu from a Shed at Mbukpu Village. Height of the Larger, about 122 cm. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
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Plate II. B-Ekpu from a Shed at Mbukpu Village. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron
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Plate II. C-Group of Twenty-One Ekpu Lying in the Open. Ekpu: The Ancestor Figures of Oron