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Ejagham

Emblem of the Leopard Spirit Society (Nkpa)

Ejagham, 1966

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Ejagham

Emblem of the Leopard Spirit Society (Nkpa)

Ejagham, 1966

Physical Qualities Reed, animal skulls (bovine, baboon, crocodile, deer, antelope, and others), grasses, leaf midrib brooms, wood, sheep and goat horns, gourd, twine and encrustation, 128 x 112 x 28 cm. (50 3/8 x 44 1/8 x 11 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert and Mary Cumming, Baltimore
Object Number 2002.609
"Crosscurrents of Culture: Arts of Africa and the Americas in Alabama Collections," Birmingham Museum of Art, May 18-August 31, 1997

"Subverting Beauty: African Anti-Aesthetics", Jul 15, 2018 - Nov 17, 2019, BMA, Kevin Tervala.
Manuel Jordan and Mary Villadsen, "Crosscurrents of Culture: Arts of Africa and the Americas in Alabama," Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1997: Page 22

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