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Ritual Altar, (Ofo, Ovo)

Photo by Tom Joyce

Ritual Altar, (Ofo, Ovo)

early 20th century

Cast copper alloy
2 x 7 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (5.1 x 18.4 x 8.3cm)
Partial gift of Tom Joyce and partial purchase with funds from John and Robyn Horn
2007.245
Photo by Tom Joyce
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryAsheville, North Carolina, Life Force at the Anvil, A Blacksmith's Art from Africa, May 22 - August 28, 1998
Published ReferencesCole, Herbert M. and Chike C. Aniakor, Igbo Arts: Community and Cosmos. Los Angeles: University of California, 1984 p.28-29

Poynor, Robin. African Art at the Harn Museum: Spirit Eyes, Human Hands. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1995 p. 116-117

Anderson, Martha G. and Philip M. Peek, eds. Ways of the Rivers: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2002

Bentor, Eli, Life as an Artistic Process: Igbo Ikenga and Ofo, African Arts Vol. 21, No. 2-2-88

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