Line drawing, ink on paper of a group of people with bundles on their heads.
Provenance:
Roy and Sophia Sieber, Bloomington, Indiana, -- to 1993
Exhibition History:
Poetics of Line: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 22, 1997-April 26, 1998
Published References:
Nicholls, Andrea. 1997. "The Poetics of the Line: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group." Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Press, p. 7.
Ottenberg, Simon. 1997. New Traditions from Nigeria: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Press, p. 91.
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