Plaster mould with inner mould of latex/rubber bound with string to hold to mould together. Used to reproduce Nok terracotta's. [FB 25/02/2015]

Collection type: Object
Description: Plaster mould with inner mould of latex/rubber bound with string to hold to mould together. Used to reproduce Nok terracotta's. [FB 25/02/2015]
Long description: Plaster mould with inner mould of latex/rubber bound with string to hold to mould together. Used to reproduce Nok terracotta's. The two halves of the mould are bound together with string, forming a hollow filled with ?newspaper. There is a hole in one side, revealing the hollow. [ILL [OPS move] 10/8/2017] [FB 25/02/2015]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England
Person: Field collector Bernard Evelyn Buller Fagg; PRM source Mary Catherine Fagg; PRM source Angela Rackham
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1970
Date collected: By 1970
Acquisition information: Donated: 26/07/2012
Materials and processes: Material Plaster, Material Rubber Plant, Material String, Process Moulded, Process Tied
Dimensions: Depth: max 256 mm, Width: max 225 mm, Length: max 256 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2012.103.20 Other numbers: 79
Research and responses: This is a mould for a cast of the terracotta listed as no. 79 in Nok Terracottas, by Bernard Fagg (London: Ethnographica, 1977). See plate 79. Caption for the original terracotta: "Found in tribute mining at a depth of about eight feet near Jemaa. This head, obviously broken from a figure, shows elongated ears, and the remains of buns of hair. The beard is truncated and moustaches have been broken off. One of the eyes is not completely perforated through to the interior. The exaggeration of the ears has parallels to ancient Ife terracotta sculpture and in modern Yoruba woodcarving. JOS 58/19 H 21 cm" [FB 28/01/2015]

Search terms: Technique, Figure, Mould

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