The carver of this piece explained that he made it to warn others about how to recognize and avoid water spirits after he himself had been approached by three of them in a dream. Carver also made Cat 77.
Medium
26 in/66 cm high
Identifier
2011.038.001A/B
Rights
Alternate image courtesy of the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
Source
Gift of Dr. Edna Bay
Subject
Mende
Provenance
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Ex coll. Africana Museum, Cuttington University College, Suakoko, Liberia. Looted from museum, ca. 1980-1997. Ex coll. Edna Bay, United States, purchased in Monrovia, Liberia, 1997.
Spatial Coverage
Liberia
Medium
Wood, polychrome
Is Referenced By
William Siegmann, Rock of the Ancestors (Suacoco: Cuttington University College, 1977), 52.
