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Terra Cotta Head, Nigeria, Court of Benin, Ife Peoples

Terra Cotta Head, Nigeria, Court of Benin, Ife Peoples

© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Terra Cotta Head, Nigeria, Court of Benin, Ife Peoples
Terra Cotta Head, Nigeria, Court of Benin, Ife Peoples
ArtistAmerican, 1903–1975
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Terra Cotta Head, Nigeria, Court of Benin, Ife Peoples
Date1936
PlaceNigeria, Africa
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 5/8 × 7 5/8 in. (24.4 × 19.3 cm)
 Sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Molly Kay Brooks and Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1004
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
ProvenanceArtist's estate
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in, "American Vision: Photographers from the East, Selections from the Manfred Heiting Collection purchased by the Brown Foundation for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston from August 23-December 29, 2003.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Stamped in black, verso of sheet, lower right, with pencil insertions: "Walker Evans / XX / 296 "

Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower right: "296 / [crossed out] 292 / 2 / 9 / 25"

Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower left: "239"

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