Production
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when
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1950 - 1996
Mami Wata | Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Mami Wata
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Female skulpture with snake
Representation of an African water spirit, Mami Wata. Mami Wata depictions are mostly endowed with female attributes.The Mami Wata cult is mainly practised in West Africa and the Caribbean. The cult combines myth and mythical ideas based on female water deities, mermaids and snake priestesses.
- Data Provider
- Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Ewe
- Object type
- figures (representations)
- Dimensions
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Height: 390.0 mm
Width: 130.0 mm
Depth: 130.0 mm - Material/Technique
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Colour pigments, Wood, Carving
- Current location
- Museum Natur und Mensch
- Inventory number
- I/3156
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of legal title:
Purchase-
when
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13.01.1997
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Africa (location/origin)Togo (location/origin)
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC0 1.0 DEED
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