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Uli drawings

Nigeria

 

Thought to have been collected by Agnes Siddons Arnot, or Edward Harland Duckworth

Bequeathed to the Museum in 1972

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Uli painting, Nigeria

This drawing was made by an Igbo woman – or several women – in Nigeria in the 1930s or 1940s. The drawings show the designs painted by Igbo women both on their bodies and on walls. These temporary body paintings were called uli.

View database record 1972.24.172



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