Currently not on view
Emblem (nkpa) of the Leopard Society (ngbe),
late 19th–early 20th century
Artist unrecorded
Ejagham
1995-408
Information
Title
Emblem (nkpa) of the Leopard Society (ngbe)
Dates
late 19th–early 20th century
Maker
Medium
Animal bones, human mandible, wood, cane, raffia, plant fibers, and organic material
Dimensions
121.9 × 111.8 × 27.9 cm (48 × 44 × 11 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of H. Kelley Rollings, Class of 1948, and Mrs. Rollings
Object Number
1995-408
Place Made
Africa, Nigeria, Cross River region
Africa, Cameroon, Cross River region
Type
Materials
Techniques
Philippe Leloup, Paris, France; Mr. & Mrs. H. Kelley Rollings, Tucson, AZ; Princeton University Art Museum, 1995
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1995," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 56, no. 1/2 (1997): p. 36-74., p. 47
- Karin Jaschke, "An Ngbe-Society emblem," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 58, no. 1/2 (1999): p. 70-76., p. 70, fig. 1; p. 74, fig. 5
- "Selected checklist of objects in the collection of African art," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 58, no. 1/2 (1999): p. 77–83., p. 79
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 286 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 141
