Memorial Head, 18th century

  • Fante, African

Terracotta

  • Overall: 9 1/8 × 5 3/8 × 6 1/8 inches (23.2 × 13.7 × 15.6 cm)

Museum Purchase, Friends of African and African American Art Fund

2002.178

On View

  • African, Level 1, North

Department

African Art

Albert Nuamah (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

2002-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Quarcoopome, Nii. “Akan Funerary Arts in Terra-cotta.” Bulletin of the DIA 91, 1/4 (2017): p. 80 (fig. 4.7a-b).

Fante, African, Memorial Head, 18th century, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Friends of African and African American Art Fund, 2002.178.