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Mbopo Initiation Figure
Mbopo Initiation Figure
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Mbopo Initiation Figure

Maker Anang Artist
Date1970-1971
Place of originPort Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria
MediumWood, enamel paint
Dimensions21 × 10 × 10 in. (53.3 × 25.4 × 25.4 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Ruth P. Phillips Art Acquisition Endowment
Object number2016.23
Collections
Visual Descriptionfemale figure, painted with buff colored skin, black hair, red necklace with palmate patterned beads; several raised bands on waist painted yellow with black dots, and two similar bands on upper calves; Hairdo is of five pigtails; face decoration of three parallel lines on chin; decorated protruding navel. Left arm is detached and will require conservation to reattach it and stabilize the insect-damaged core.
Female figure with outstretched hands, palms up, and wearing a wristwatch (painted on) with three black pigtails. Painted pink flesh, white and patterned skirt with yellow waist beads, and green shirt; painted body adornment on navel and face.
Female Mbopo Initiation Figure
Anang Artist
1970-1971
Female Mbopo Initiation Figure
Female Mbopo Initiation Figure
Anang Artist
1970-1971
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2010
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Mammy Wata (or Mami Wata)
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1970-1971
Hand held bell, painted green with relief carved mask, white eyes and red mouth; handle ends in carved face of man with green cap. Wooden clappers
Rattle
Anang Artist
1970-1971
Standing figure with wood core, covered with leather. Fringe on lower part of leather; Coin mounted on center of hips, and on chest; metal rings on waist; strands of various glass imported beads hanging from each ear, and glass bead eyes Figure’s stance is with arms and hands outstretched parallel to plane of body. Tubular neck, small round head, tubular torso with stylized arms and legs; flared rounded hips.
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20th century
A stylized painting of a figure with dark reddish-brown skin, wide eyes, and an elongated neck adorned with patterned bands. The figure has a ponytail and wears earrings.
Naga Girl Holding Bird
Jamini Roy
c. 1955
Globular jar with hemispherical bottom, supported by large conical tripod legs with rattles and small firing slits, bottom joins into spherical wall with short raised rim larger effigy face on side of wall raised loops for ears small nubbins for mouth and nose indented circular rings for eyes.
Globular tripod jar with effigy
Costa Rican Artist
1200-1550
Fish-tail shaped polished leather flap with beaded borders and bands on top; secured around waist with drawstring. White, black, blue, green, pink and red beads. Rings of multicolored beads in center of panel.
Man's Wedding Apron (ibeshu)
Zulu Artist
c. 1940
Small bowl with flattened bottom and small conical tripod feet, wall rises straight with slight outward lean for the bottom half, top half has wide outward flare to form broad rim. Interior bottom has series of inscribed lines in a rough octagonal design. Burnished buff ware with painted red bands around interior and exterior rim, interior and exterior bottom faded comb pattern around outside wall between red bands.
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Mexican Artist
1000-1200
Bowl with rounded bottom curving to vertical straight wall with slight outward flare of rim supported by tripod legs shaped to resemble animal (bird) heads, cranial swell jus below attachment with protruding eyes at sides, smoothly tapering to pointed snout (beak) Black bordered red ands around inside and outside of rim small panel over each leg, bordered by b lack and red vertical bands with series of semicircle motif in panel legs painted with broad black bands red on beak and eyes
Tripod Bowl
Costa Rican Artist
1000-1550
Rounded bowl with 1' raised footing ring sloping outward from attachment point to edge. Bottom of bowl rounds up into wall to 1/3 height wall becomes straight with slight outward slope. Rim flares sharply outward, divided into rounded crenellations
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Costa Rican Artist
800-1200

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