Commemorative Figure

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Title Commemorative Figure (Atei)

Date Late 19th–early 20th century

Medium Wood, pigment, and and incrustation

Dimensions Object: 77 1/2 × 8 × 3 7/8 in. (196.9 × 20.3 × 9.8 cm)
Overall (includes mount): 83 7/8 × 11 3/4 × 8 in. (213 × 29.8 × 20.3 cm)

Credit Line Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 2010.12

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Carved to commemorate an important ancestor, this figure straddles the line between relief sculpture and sculpture in the round. Set up in men's houses—communal buildings where men gather to socialize and hold religious and social rituals—such figures combine representations of the human form with depictions of totemic animals.

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"Commemorative Figure | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=2010.12