Ibibio
Female Puppet
Ibibio, 1933
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Ibibio
Female Puppet
Ibibio, 1933
Physical Qualities
Wood; metal; black, pink and blue paint, 16 1/4 × 6 1/4 × 4 3/4 in. (41.2 × 15.8 × 12 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Barry and Toby T. Hecht, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number
1991.350
Standing female figure with articulated arms, right hand forms a circle as if a pole would have gone through it. 2 rings circle waist, hair is parted in center with braid on either side of face.
William and Robert Arnett, Atlanta, Georgia
Wittmer, Marcilene A., and William Arnett. "Three Rivers of Nigeria: Art of the Lower Niger, Cross and Benue from the Collection of William and Robert Arnett." Atlanta: The High Museum of Art, 1978, pp. 59, ill. 139.
