Female Reliquary Figure (Mbulu Ngulu)

Kota, Obamba, 1900

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Master of the Incised Triangle, Kota, and others

Artist: Master of the Incised Triangle
Culture region: Kota
Culture sub-region: Ndassa

Female Reliquary Figure (Mbulu Ngulu)

Kota, Obamba, 1900

Physical Qualities Wood, copper alloy, iron, 23 x 13 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (58.4 x 34.3 x 8.9 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger

Object Number 1954.145.64

'The Wurtzburger Collection of African Sculpture,' The Baltimore Museum of Art, Jan. 12-Feb. 14, 1954; Cat. 64, illus. p. 25.

'Wurtzburger Collection,' School of Advanced Studies, JHU, Washington D.C., June 21-Aug. 31, 1954.

'African Sculpture,' The Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, N.Y., Oct. 8-Nov. 7, 1954.

'Tribal Arts of West Africa II,' at The Maryland Academy of Sciences, Jan, 1971-May 1972, Cat. #107, ill.

'Nigeria: Art and Everyday Life,' The Walters Art Gallery, June 16-July 7, 1978.

"Meditations on African Art: Light," Dec 17, 2006 - Apr 1, 2007, BMA, Karen Milbourne.

African Reinstallation, "Sacred Art," Apr 2015, Wurtzburger Galleries, Kathryn Gunsch.

Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p. 60, ill.

BMA. "African Spirit Series" brochure 2006-2007. ill.

Lillian Maria Burgunder, "Meditations on African Art: Light," "Newsletter of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society of the BMA," Spring 2007, Vol. XXV, No. 1, p. 12, ill. p. 12.

Baltimore Museum of Art. "The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.

"Female Reliquart Figure (Mbulu Ngulu)" BMA Today, issue 160 (summer 2019): p. 21