Head of Queen Mother Iyoba
Queen's head mother of terracotta with pointed headdress. It is a reproduction of the classic bronze heads.
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List of the historical catalogue
C.- TERRACOTAS: CERAMICA
Text and organisation of the original catalogue · Jesús Arrimadas Saavedra
Actually ceramic and terracotta are the same thing, clay or ground cooked at lower or higher temperature. In African art a distinction is made, terracottas are understood to be those figures of baked clay, of great antiquity, that have been destined for some kind of worship, usually millennial, and that, for the most part, are the object of archaeological excavations. African ceramics is rather what we mean by pottery and whose objects are mainly intended for domestic or utilitarian use.
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Young Warrior Ikenga
Young initiated with his warrior attributes.
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Androgine Figure
The male genitals and incipient breasts show that this is the case with an androgynous-looking female statue.
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Maternity
Motherhood of clay cooked with varied polychrome representing a mother of anthropomorphic appearance but with head of cow or buffalo, animals…
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Maternity
Maternity with the child sitting on the mother's lap. It gathers all the characteristics of magnbetu pottery.
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Maternity
beautiful motherhood in dark clay.
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Oil Lamp
Small ground oil lamp cooked featuring three characters, Pygmies, with facial scarifications.
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Oil Lamp
Oil lamp intended to illuminate the interior of the huts when there is no fire on.
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Sitting Male Character
Male character sitting in an offering attitude, with a glass of offerings between his hands.
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Sitting Woman
Female character with incipient breasts that by facial scarifications and necklaces and bracelets he wears on neck, arms and legs, as well…
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Leopard Head
The leopard is an attribute of royalty, only the king can use this symbol, which represents strength, agility, beauty and intelligence.
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Jar
Terracotta jug of anthropomorphic forms whose handles are the arms, exaggerated, of the character and the vessel his body.
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Female Statue
Statue of a young man who began, as shown by his facial scarifications and wrists in the form of bracelets.
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Jar
Artistic clay jar cooked with dark brown pigmentation profusely decorated.
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Anthropomorphic pitcher
Anthropomorphic pitcher depicting a mother with her son riding on top, judging by the typical female and male hairstyles respectively.
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Anthropomorphic pitcher
Anthropomorphic pitcher that, judging by the hairstyle, represents a woman, with her arms and legs folded.
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Anthropozoomorph vessel
Vase with human features and bird beak. The handles of the container are formed by hands and very short arms.
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Oil Lamp
In their ceremonies they worship the land and ancestors by pouring corn beer on the ground and on the tombs, as a…
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Prestigio vessel
The Mangbetu They had a very hierarchical social structure, and the towns depended on a provincial chief who in turn depended on…
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Oil Lamp
The glow of the fire of the home around which the large family gathers in winter to listen to stories or songs…
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Oil Lamp
Oval oil lamp with embossed characters dancing around the lamp body.
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Male Statue
Male figure sitting on a stool, with one arm on the other in a resting attitude.
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Gelede Maternity
The Gelede cult, practiced mainly by the Yoruba Westerners, it is a cult in honor of living or deceased elderly women.
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Cantaro
These vessels are characterized by this anthropomorphic figure always with an open mouth.
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