Ceremonial Ladle (Wakemia or Wunkirmian)
Object type: Ladle
Department: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Artist: Zlan of Belewale
Artist bio: ca. 1885, Gengwebe, Côte d’Ivoire – ca. 1955, Liberia
Artist role: Artist
Date: before 1960
Medium: Wood, fiber, metal, pigment
Dimensions: W. 5 1/4 × D. 4 × L. 23 in. (13.3 × 10.2 × 58.4 cm)
Classification: Wood-Implements
Geography:     Liberia  
Credit line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979
Accession year: 1979
Tags: Heads|Women|Ceremonial Objects