Female skulpture with snake | Photographer: Axel Killian
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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.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Cultural attribution
Ewe
Object type
figures (representations)
Dimensions
Höhe: 390.0 mm, Breite: 130.0 mm, Tiefe: 130.0 mm
Material/Technique
Carving
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
I/3156
Provenance and sources
when
1950 - 1996
when
13.01.1997
where
Africa (location/origin)
Togo (location/origin)
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