Portrait of a Tigre Clan Elder

• Title Portrait of a Tigre Clan Elder
• Category Drawing
• Medium Charcoal
• Medium Human Figure
• Dimensions 20"h x 13.5"w
• Year Completed 1970
• Notes This man comes from the Tigre ethnic group living in the mountains of Sahl, Teseney, and Semhar in the Massawa area. The Tigre are agro-pastoralists organized in clan groups. Now overwhelmingly Muslim, the Tigre were originally Coptic Christians.
• Artist Zehaie Abraha Ethiopian
• Credit John and Janet Yoder Collection
• Location Library Art Storage G2
• Accession Number 2022.0167
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