Akan Terracotta Head, Ghana

Akan Terracotta Head, Ghana 9 x 4 1/2 x 5 1/ 2in. overall. Sold Sotheby's, NY, The Collection of Walter Randel, New York, November 14, 2003, Lot 37. Property from the Collection of Tom Levine

Ca. 17th to 18thC. Age-appropriate wear as shown within the pictures. Akan terracotta head with stand; Twifo-Hemang, Ghana. Purchased in Ghana 1994. Ex-Nooter coll.

Gedenk-Kopf Akan, Ghana Mit Sockel / with base Terrakotta. H 29 cm. Provenienz: Helmut und Marianne Zimmer, Zürich. CHF 400 / 800 EUR 344 / 688

This is a rare ancient terracotta head which would have commemorated a member of a royal family who lived in what is now south central Ghana. Such sculptures, viewed as substitutes for the deceased, w

Two African Akan-style, Ghana terracotta nsodie (memorial heads); each with incised and moulded detailing; H: 11" (larger, approx.)

A lovely clay sculpture of an ancestral face and head, traditionally considered memorial heads. Akan or Ashanti peoples, Ghana, Africa. The hand made terracotta clay head measures 11 x 5.5 inches.

An ancient Akan peoples terracotta Memorial Head (Mma) with large flat rounded head and obvious age and field use, dating back to the late 19th or early 20th century, Ghana, Kwahu traditional area. Th

A group of Two Akan Funerary Figures. Terracotta. Ghana, West Africa. ++ Akan Funerary Head. 6 3/4" x 5" x 2 1/2". ++ Akan Funerary Figure. 7" x 3 1/2" x 3 1/2". Condition: Neck of figure is broken.Sh

In present-day Ghana, terracotta sculptures produced by women have played a central role in Akan funerary rites. Made from humble clay, this head is a commemorative portrait created to honor a departe

A Fine old terracotta head which was used traditionally as a memorial portrait (nsodie) of an Akan ruler from southern Ghana or southeastern Côte d'Ivoire. It is an idealized representation whose ser

Terrakotta-Kopf Akan-Twifo, Ghana Mit Sockel / with base Terrakotta. H 10 cm. Provenienz: - Galerie Walu, Zürich. - deutsche Privatsammlung, Düsseldorf (1982). - Jean David, Basel (2023). De

terracotta, brown resp. black patina, various facial forms and coiffures, min. dam., fine cracks, missing parts, bases; memorial heads of the Akan were not thought as individual portraits, they just s

A very interesting old terracotta clay Memorial Head (Nsodie)from the Ashanti / Akan peoples of Ghana, Africa. painted black with a highly stylized form of a human head with raised facial features and

African Memorial Earthenware Mask 20th century, Akan people Ghana, terracotta having pigment, human effigy with abstract and enlarged head on ringed neck; Provenance: private collection, US, purchased

This is a very old terracotta sculpture from the Akan peoples of Ghana, Africa. According to the Met Museum: Such Idols were created posthumously, royal images like this one were placed with the portr

Two African Terracotta Artifacts, Ghana. Including a Koma figure, Ghana, 13th-19th century. On stand. Provenance: ex Eric Robertson Gallery, NYC and an Akan memorial head, 19th century. On stand. Size

African Akan Terracotta Head in the Adwin Style, likely 18th C. Size: 5.5" x 4.5" x 6" (14 x 11 x 15 cm).

An Akan terracotta head fragment. 5" H 1 lb. 7 oz

Akan, terracotta memorial head in the Kwahu style, with long ringed neck, tall coiffure and scarification on cheeks and forehead. Remains of ritual material on both head and neck. West Africa. Likely

A group of West African objects. ++ A cylindrical shaped hide covered object which may be a shield. 20th century. ++ Nine miscellaneous ethnographic objects. ++ Terracotta funerary head, Ghana, Asante

A group of three West African objects. 20th century. ++ Igbo maternity figure. Nigeria. 47 1/2" x 20" x 15". ++ Owo style bell. Nigeria. 6" x 4" x 5". ++ Akan funerary head. Ghana. 11 1/2" x 5" x 5"._

An Akan Commemorative Head Ghana Height 7 inches. Provenance: Art Market, Chicago, Illinois. Howard Jacobs Collection, California, acquired 1970s; thence by decent. (With signed statement from current

A Fine old terracotta clay memorial head , likely the effigy of a foreign trader, certainly more of a portrait then most Akan memorial heads. Provenance: Ex Dave DeRoche, Sanfrancisco, CA.

Old hand made terracotta clay styled head with raised tribal tattoos and elongated facial features. The head has a fairly weathered and eroded bottom edge suggesting some time in the field. The Head m