Kneeling Female Figure
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Traces of a fourteenth- and fifteenth-century tradition of figurative representations in cast metal and fired clay have been found at a number of sites in the Bamana region near Bougouni and Diola. Bankoni elongated figures such as this one, featuring active warriors and a kneeling female figure, may be an artistic precursor to more recent Bamana wood sculptures devoted to similar subjects.
Artwork Details
- Title: Kneeling Female Figure
- Date: 15th–16th century
- Geography: Mali
- Culture: Bankoni civilization
- Medium: Terracotta, quartz
- Dimensions: H. 24 13/16 × W. 13 3/4 × L. 16 9/16 in. (63 × 35 × 42 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics-Sculpture
- Credit Line: Private collection
- Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing