About the Artwork
Funerary Head
between 19th and 20th century
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African
Akan
Terracotta
Overall: 11 × 7 1/8 × 5 3/4 inches (27.9 × 18.1 × 14.6 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Gift of Justice and Mrs. G. Mennen Williams
74.223
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Karl Heinz Krieg (Germany). Justice and Mrs. G. Mennen Williams
1975-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Detroit Collects African Art. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, April 21 - May 29, 1977, no. 50 (ill).
Quarcoopome, Nii. “Akan Funerary Arts in Terra-cotta,” Bulletin of the DIA 91, 1-4 (2017): p. 79 (fig. 4.5a-b).
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Akan, African, Funerary Head, between 19th and 20th century, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Justice and Mrs. G. Mennen Williams, 74.223.
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