2013.29: Atiai
PhotographsIn this black and white photo, the girl’s head is positioned in front of a plain white backdrop. Her small tight braids form three loops in each section around her head, close to the scalp. The section in the center top of her head has about five or six braided loops. We do not see her face, only the back of her ears and neck. The image is evenly lit, as if in a photo studio.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2013.29
- People
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J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, African (Ovbiomu-Emai, Nigeria 1930 - 2014 Lagos, Nigeria)
- Title
- Atiai
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1970, printed 2012
- Places
- Creation Place: Africa, Nigeria
- Culture
- Nigerian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/348587
Location
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3610, University Teaching Gallery
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 128.3 x 121.3 cm (50 1/2 x 47 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- stamp: recto, b.r., in black ink: D 'OKAI OJEIKERE [over] (FOTO OJEIKERE) [over] Lagos Nigeria
- (not assigned): recto, b.r., in black inkl: [signature] [over] 20-01-2013 [at right] HD - 262 [over] 70
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, 2012, sold; through [L. Parker Stephenson, New York]; to Harvard Art Museums, 2013.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
- Copyright
- © J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere courtesy L. Parker Stephenson Photographs
- Accession Year
- 2013
- Object Number
- 2013.29
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 1120 Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/07/2015 - 04/06/2016
- Art of the Black World, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2024 - 01/05/2025
Verification Level
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