Female Figure with Nursing Male Child
Arts of Africa
MEDIUM
Terracotta
DATES
ca. 1300
DIMENSIONS
Attached a&b: 9 x 6 x 7 1/2 in (22.8 x 15.2 x 19.0 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Arts of Africa
ACCESSION NUMBER
1996.170.15
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Joseph and Margaret Knopfelmacher
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
The object is a depiction of a kneeling female figure with a child on her lap, nursing at her left breast. The child is wearing a belt around the waist which consists of little bells/cowrie shells (?). The female is naked and only adorned with modeled bangles at her arms and a cordage impression at the waist. Condition: the object is in poor condition. (For detailed description see supplementary accession file.)
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Female Figure with Nursing Male Child, ca. 1300. Terracotta, Attached a&b: 9 x 6 x 7 1/2 in (22.8 x 15.2 x 19.0 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Joseph and Margaret Knopfelmacher, 1996.170.15. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1996.170.15_PS10.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 1996.170.15_PS10.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2015
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