Commemorative head
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| Caption | Ceramic naturalistic male head with coffee bean eyes and arched brows adorned with diagonal incisions. The head is bald at the crown, but with knob-like projections representing hair extending around the back of the head to the temples. Three raised vertical scarification marks on the proper right of the head and traces of the same on proper left. Date: 1690s. Record ID: nmafa_86-12-4. |
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| Creator | Akan artist, maker |
| Artwork medium | Ceramic |
| Credit | Smithsonian National Museum of African Art |
| Terms of use | Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0) |
| Search stock images by keyword | Commemorative head Ceramic naturalistic male coffee bean eyes arched brows adorned diagonal incisions Ancestral Men Funerary Akan artist |
| Stock image ref | Size | Views |
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| YSF000085 | 2,361 x 3,000 pixels | 31 |
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