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The Emotan Panel in the Penn Museum
09/2022 | 1434 | 164
Pages: 888-897
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Author:
Curnow, Kathy (Curnow, Kathy)
Subjects
artists:
Edokpolo, Isaac O
artists:
Danford, John Alexander
dates:
1960-1969
museums and institutions:
Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, United
places:
Nigeria / Benin
subjects:
Carvings / Wood sculpture / Plaques / Monarchy
subjects:
Africans / Iconography / African sculpture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Decorative plaque (the Emotan Panel), by Isaac O. Edokpolo. c.1959–66. Wood, 39 by 29.5 by 2 cm. (Penn Museum, Philadelphia).
Attributed works:
10. Detail of Fig.1, showing the medallion.
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11. Isaac O. Edokpolo’s business card. 9 by 7 cm. (Photograph Norma Wolff).
Attributed works:
12. Decorative plaque, by Isaac O. Edokpolo. Before 1966. Wood, approximately 38.53 by 26 cm. (Private collection; photograph Norma Wolff).
Attributed works:
2. Emotan, by John Alexander Danford. 1954. Bronze, height 182.9 cm. without base. (Photograph Barbara Blackmun, 1994).
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3. John Danford working on Emotan in his studio in Chelsea, London, 3rd April 1953. (Keystone Press; Alamy).
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4. A group of chiefs’ wives at a palace ceremony, their hair decorated with coral ornaments and brass feathers. 1994. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
5. The Emotan shrine as it appears today. (Photograph 21st June 2018, courtesy AllTimePost.com).
Attributed works:
6. The newly crowned O. ba of Benin Kingdom, Eheneden Erediauwa, is guided through a symbolic bridge by the palace chiefs during his coronation in Benin City, Nigeria, 20th October 2016. (Photograph Reuters / Akintunde Akinleye; Alamy).
Attributed works:
7. Decorative plaque, by Isaac O. Edokpolo. c.1960s. Wood, 30 by 28 cm. (Private collection; photograph Michael Graham Stewart).
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8. Carved container. Late 19th century. Coconut, height 12.7 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
9. Prototype medallion for the London Royal Society of Arts, by Thomas Pingo. 1790. Silver, diameter 4.4 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Article
An Afro-Portuguese ivory from Ksar es-Seghir, Morocco
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 822-824
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Author:
Afonso, Luís Urbano (Afonso, Luís Urbano)
Author:
Gomes, Mário Varela (Gomes, Mário Varela)
Subjects
dates:
Sixteenth-century
media:
Ivories
places:
Morocco / Portugal / Benin / Africa
subjects:
African sculpture / African / Portuguese / Carvings / Ivories / Spoons / Saltcellars / Oliphants / Forks / Pyxes
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Fragments of a Bini-Portuguese spoon or fork. 1525–50. Ivory, length c.7.6 cm. (From C. Redman: Qsar es-Seghir: An Archaeological View of Medieval Life, Orlando 1986, p.130).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Technical drawing based on Fig.1. (J. Gonçalves).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Spoon. Bini-Portuguese, 1525–50. Ivory, length 26 cm. (Welt Museum, Vienna).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Spoon. Bini-Portuguese, 1525–50. Ivory, 22 cm long. (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris).
Book Review
The ‘Black Art’ Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism across Continents
07/2021 | 1420 | 163
Pages: 644-646
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Reviewer:
MCBREEN, Ellen (MCBREEN, Ellen)
Subjects
subjects:
African sculpture / Modernism / Masks / Colonialism / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The ‘Black Art’ Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism across Continents By Joshua I. Cohen. 304 pp. incl. 83 col. + 18 b. & w. ills. (University of California Press, Oakland, 2020), £54. ISBN 978–0–520–30968–5. | :
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
8. Mask, southwest Ivory Coast. Wood, pigments, nails, raffia and cowries, height 37 cm. (Private collection; courtesy Archives Claude Picasso; photograph Maurice Aeschimann).
Book Review
Babembe Sculpture
11/2010 | 1292 | 152
Pages: 753
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Reviewer:
Picton, John (Picton, John)
Subjects
places:
Congo
print:
African sculpture
subjects:
Sculpture / African / Human figure / Fetish figures
subjects:
Wood sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Babembe Sculpture | author: Lecomte, Alain , author: Lehuard, Raoul
Book Review
African Goldweights: Miniature Sculptures from Ghana 1400–1900
11/2010 | 1292 | 152
Pages: 746-747
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Reviewer:
McLeod, M. D. (McLeod, M. D.)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1899
places:
Africa / Ghana
print:
African sculpture
subjects:
Sculpture / African / Goldsmiths / Gold / Casts (sculpture)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
African Goldweights: Miniature Sculptures from Ghana 1400–1900 | author: Philips, Tom