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Warrior Figure

Mande, African
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African, Level 1, North Wing

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About the Artwork

This majestic and dignified figure probably represents a warrior king, decked out in elaborately detailed jewelry and armed with a quiver and a distinctive type of dagger on his upper left arm. These daggers are still worn by the nomadic Tuareg people, who dominate the caravan routes crossing the Sahara Desert. It is quite possible that the warrior was originally mounted on a horse, now destroyed.

Warrior Figure

between 1300 and 1400

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African

Mande

Terracotta

Including base: 21 5/8 × 9 3/4 × 7 1/2 inches (54.9 × 24.8 × 19.1 cm) Overall: 16 3/4 × 9 3/4 × 7 inches (42.5 × 24.8 × 17.8 cm)

Sculpture

African Art

Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art

78.32

Public Domain

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Published References

African Masterworks In The Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington and London, 1995, cat. no. 2.

Bulletin of the DIA 56, no. 5 (1978): 262, fig. 3.

“Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit News, April 27, 1980, 21 (ill.).

“Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press, April 18, 1982, 27 (ill.).

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Mande, African, Warrior Figure, between 1300 and 1400, Terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art, 78.32.

Warrior Figure
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