Female Head and Bust

Description This statuette has been carved in the round and painted. Her hair is in wavy lines from a circle at the top of her head. She wears a double necklace. Her flesh is brown, her hair black, and her eyes black and white. At the back is the top of a stele. The piece has been repaired. The authenticity of this piece has been questioned.

Exhibitions

• Sonya Clark: Loose Strands, Tight Knots. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2008.

Provenance Abemayor, Cairo [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1931