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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University.  Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Mami Wata Marionette Figure
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University.  Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
ClassificationsAfrican Art

Mami Wata Marionette Figure

Place CreatedNigeria, Africa
Date20th Century
Credit LineEx coll. William S. Arnett
Dimensions24 13/16 x 11 3/16 x 7 in. (63 x 28.4 x 17.8 cm)
Object number1994.004.416
Exhibition HistoryThree Rivers of Nigeria: Art of the Lower Niger, Cross, and Benue from the Collection of William and Robert Arnett, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1978
Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and the African Atlantic World (travelling show), Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, March 1 - July 2008; Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, October 18, 2008 - January 11, 2009; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, April - July 2009; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Standford, California, August 4, 2010 - January 2, 2011
Published ReferencesMarcilene K. Wittmer and William Arnett, Three Rivers of Nigeria: Art of the Lower Niger, Cross, and Benue (Atlanta: The High Museum of Art, 1978), 62, number 143.
Jill Salmons, "Mammy Wata among the Annang Ibibio," in Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas, ed. Henry John Drewal (Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2008), 120-21, figure 6.5.
MCCM Newsletter, September - November, 2009.
ProvenanceEx coll. William Arnett (1939-2020), Atlanta, Georgia, from at least 1978.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • African Art