An important shrine figure or Ngwomo Nigeria.
Nigeria
An important shrine figure or Ngwomo Nigeria.
62 cm
This impressive figure was created by Eket masters, an Ibibio sub-group centered around the town of Eket in the delta region of the Kwa river. It represents a mythological earth mother called Ala. At least three individual Eket artists or workshops are mostly known from the Ogbom performance calling attention to Ala and her role in human and agricultural fertility.
Collection
⦁ Lucien van de Velde Antwerp
⦁ Karl Ferdinand Schaeddler, Munich
⦁ Didier Claes, Brussels
Published
⦁ Soldan (Hans-Joerg), "Zur Frage des Kulturgutes der Eket", Baessler-Archiv, Neue Folge, Band XXXIV (1986), fig.10
⦁ Catalog.: "Dance and play in tribal art", Universitair Centrum v(UCLOS), Heverlee, 1983:21, #27
⦁ Bastin (Marie-Louise), "Introduction aux Arts de l'Afrique Noire", Arnouville: Arts d'Afrique Noire, 1984:210, #200
⦁ Expo cat.: "Arts-Kunst: Primitifs, Primitive, Primitieve IV", Brussels, 1994:65 (L. Van de Velde)
⦁ Schaedler (Karl-Ferdinand), "Lexikon Afrikanische Kunst und Kulter", Munich: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1994: #144
⦁ Claes (Patric Didier) with Neyt (François), "Nigerian Primitivism", Brussels, 2007:11, #1
Exhibited
⦁ Heverlee, Belgium: "Dans en Spel in de Primitive Kunst", (UCLOS), 1983
⦁ Brussels, Belgium: "Arts-Kunst: Primitifs, Primitive, Primitieve IV", 22-26 June 1994
⦁ Paris, France: "KAOS-Parcours des Mondes", 12-16 September 2007
Bibliography:
Soldan, « Zur Frage des Kulturgutes der Eket », Baessler-Archiv, 1986, vol. 34