Votive Figure
![VOTIVE FIGURE | circa 1960-65 | Photo by Ann Cady, 2024 | ©2025 Norman Daly Art: The photo depicts a ritual object consisting of a slender, elongated metal rod extending vertically from a solid, rectangular black wooden base; atop the rod is a delicate, wishbone-like structure, forming a distinctive Y-shape.
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One of the earliest uses of the orant figure, this may be a temple votive inasmuch as home votives were considerably smaller in scale. [1972 Exhibition Catalog]](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/13541/68ec8050-75cd-11ef-9593-9d1e6b7c90ad-vd5a3Ye.lg@2x.jpg)
VOTIVE FIGURE | circa 1960-65 | Photo by Ann Cady, 2024 | ©2025 Norman Daly Art
The photo depicts a ritual object consisting of a slender, elongated metal rod extending vertically from a solid, rectangular black wooden base; atop the rod is a delicate, wishbone-like structure, forming a distinctive Y-shape. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of the earliest uses of the orant figure, this may be a temple votive inasmuch as home votives were considerably smaller in scale. [1972 Exhibition Catalog]
Name/Title
Votive FigureEntry/Object ID
COL.29Made/Created
Artist
Norman DalyDate made
circa 1960 - 1965Place
Academic Institution
Cornell UniversityCity
Ithaca, New YorkContinent
North AmericaEthnography
Cultural Region
Region
Asia MinorCulture/Tribe
Llhuros
Acquisition
Place
City
Ithaca, New YorkContinent
North AmericaExhibitions
Akron Art Institute (1972)
Cornell University | A.D. White Museum of Art (1965)
Cornell University | A.D. White Museum of Art (1972)
Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (2004)
Indianapolis Art Museum (1972)
Istanbul Biennial, 16th | "The Seventh Continent" (2019)
Memorial Art Gallery | University of Rochester (1972)
Roberson Center for Art and Science, Binghamton, NY (1974)
Romische-Germanisches Museum | "Projekt '74" | Cologne Germany (1974)
University of Pennsylvania Art Museum, Philadelphia (1974)
SUNY Albany | Art Gallery (1973}