Lid of a Ceremonial Vessel (awa ota Eyinle)
Artist
Artist Unknown
Datelate 19th–early 20th century
MediumTerracotta and indigo pigment
Dimensions14 x 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (35.6 x 31.1 x 31.1 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Lee and Dona Bronson
Object numberG.77.7.4
On View
Not on viewSeeing Women: Celebrating Women's History through Art, Newspapers in Education (supplement to the Raleigh News & Observer, n.d.), 4-5, illus. (b-w) 4.
Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for Lid of a Ceremonial Vessel, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 114, illus. (color) 115.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions,” December 14, 1978-January 28, 1979.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Gallery, “Yoruba Art: A Living Tradition,” October 23, 1993-June 12, 1994.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Sacred Motherhood: Mother-and-Child Representations from the Permanent Collection,” May 4–December 7, 2014. Object Rights Statement
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