Female Figure with Bowl

1. Jeffrey Hammer and Deborah (Hammer) Stokes, Chicago, Ill., by 1985 [loan to AIC from May through October 1985 documented in curatorial file; published as collection of Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Hammer in Robbins and Nooter, 1989; acquisition documentation in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1988.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Center for African Art, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, Sept. 21, 1989–Jan. 7, 1990, cat. 168; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 10–Apr. 1, 1990, Washington D.C., National Museum of African Art, May 8–Aug. 26, 1990, Cleveland Museum of Art, Sept. 26–Dec. 9, 1990, New Orleans Museum of Art, Jan. 11–Mar. 24, 1991, Atlanta, High Museum, Apr. 23–June 16, 1991, Phoenix Art Museum, Sept. 4-Oct. 6, 1991.

• Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), p. 242, no. 618 (ill.).
• Moyo Okediji, "Art of the Yoruba," African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 23, 2 (1997), pp. 175–177, fig. 31 (ill.).
• Sarah Watson Parsons, “Interpreting Projections, Projecting Interpretations: A Reconsideration of the ‘Phallus’ in Esu Iconography,” African Arts, vol. 32, no. 2 (Summer 1999), 36-45, 90-91; 43 (ill.).
• Babatunde Lawal, "Orilonise: The Hermeneutics of the Head and Hairstyles among the Yoruba," The World of Tribal Arts (Winter/Spring 2001/2002), pp. 80–99.
• Babatunde Lawal, Yoruba (Milan: 5 Continents), 2012, pl. 9.
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 34, pp. 98-99 (ill.).
• C. Granzotto et al. "Characterization of surface materials on African sculptures: new insights from a multi-analytical study including proteomics," in Analyst, issue 10, 2021, 146, 3305-3316. [https://doi.org/10.1039/D1AN00228G]

Two salt spoons

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Statuette of Mercury

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Helmet of the Montefortino Type

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Socketed Ax-Head (Celt)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Spearhead

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Terracotta appliqué

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Head of a goddess

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cuneiform tablet: receipt of oxen for rituals

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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