WORK MEDIUM: METAL KEYS , FOUND WIRES AND MOTOR PLUG ON MABLEBASE
WORK SIZE: 38inchs X 17inchs
YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2020
ASIAN SIMPLY MEANS (PRIDE) IN EFIK LANGUAGE
Our Mother's, Wives, Sisters and Daughters mostly are the promoters of our Cultural heritage through their various hairstyles and beautification.
Asian is a metal sculptural piece that express cultural hairstyle of Efik people in old Calabar that depicting Nkuho princess of the EFIK kingdom with a full admiration of beauty using found metal junks objects.
Motor plugs used round her neck his for strength, pride, and Identification, wire is used to depict her hair, signifies her as a virginity, not been taken by any man her beauty is tantalizing and ready for marital functions.
At the time she had completed Nkuho traditional right variety of men comes to make her a wife, the cowries and it numerous numbers determine her status, physical wealth of her parents and her social status.
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