Male Head
Bura · Niger
Reference: TRRC-110
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- Material
- Cooked clay, called terracotta
Excavations carried out over the years 1983 revealed some funerary reliquaries or urns that appeared in the necropolis. The neck of these funerary vessels, sort of…
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Full original description
Excavations carried out over the years 1983 revealed some funerary reliquaries or urns that appeared in the necropolis. The neck of these funerary vessels, sort of phallic jars, is topped with heads of flat, ovoid faces with scarifications or whole characters, even mounted on horseback, most of them in fragments. The analyses carried out allow dating this culture that flourished northwest of Niamey between the centuries XIV a XVIFrom the remains found, it is known that they practiced the cult of the deceased.
This head, with an expressive look and open eyes, has a hairstyle in the form of staggered angles with a slight relief. A facial scarification on the left cheek. Most of these figures Bura They have a funerary character.
Further technical information
- Attributed period
- Century XIV a XVII
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Niger. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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