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The drawing was created in 1950 in the "Lantoro Mental Home" in Abeokuta, Nigeria. In 1982 it was exhibited together with with other drawings made in Abeokuta in 1950, in the exhibition exhibition "Hapless Heads. Paintings by crazy people from Nigeria" (Luckless Heads. Painting by de-ranged Nigerians) in Bayreuth. were shown in Bayreuth.

In the centre of the yellowed and paper held on edge is the drawing of a fat turtle. turtle. It is looking upwards and has all four of its legs towards the right and left edges of the paper. Its outstretched head is surrounded by spherical shapes. These are apparently being eaten. A bird is indicated above it. Under the turtle's tail is a base with plant stems and large leaves. and large leaves. Between the leaf stalks and the turtle's tail are turtle are spherical formations. These can be represent excretions of the turtle. The plants are in olive-green colours, the turtle is also painted in muted shades of green and shades of green and ochre colours. On the reverse of the leaf is another drawing of an animal with abstract plants. plants. In shades of brown, green and ochre, there is an animal with four beige centre of the sheet is an animal with four legs and a tail with a bushy tip. tail with a bushy tip. The animal appears to be eating something spherical. It moves from from the left to the right half of the picture. At the bottom left is the word "Demuja" without a "d".

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Data Provider
Iwalewahaus, Universität Bayreuth

Cataloguing data

Object type
drawings (visual works)
Other title
U. Mithe
Dimensions
Height: 27,5 cm
Width: 16,7 cm
Current location
Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth
Inventory number
G01017WN

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1950
    where
    Abeokuta, Nigeria
    who
    Demudja

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED
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