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More model informationDjenne buffalo
Quadruped (she-buffalo?) with two human figures (hunters?).
Inner Niger Delta (IND) region, Mali. 12th–17th century.
Terracotta with ochre/red slip.
H: 39 cm, L: 54 cm.
Provenance: Ex Charles B. Benenson (B.A. Yale, 1933).
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.
To learn more about Djenne terracotta figures, see: Scrofulous Sogolon: Scanning the Sunjata Epic by Anne-Marie Bouttiaux & Marc Ghysels, Tribal Art magazine, Spring 2015, XIX-2, n°75, pp. 88-123 — a free PDF is available here:
This 3D model was built using a set of VRT images (Volume Rendering Technique) after post-processing 1900 CT-scan axial slices (Somatom + InSpace).
MG • January 24, 2016
Jan 23rd 2016
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