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Post by Shymmex on Jan 12, 2016 18:43:04 GMT
Figure of a Standing Male ARTS OF AFRICA CULTURE Yoruba MEDIUM Wood, pigment Place Made: Africa DATES late 19th or early 20th century DIMENSIONS 23 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 7 in. (59.7 x 21.6 x 17.8 cm) (show scale) COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 12, 2016 18:43:53 GMT
Gelede Mask ARTS OF AFRICA CULTURE Yoruba MEDIUM Wood, pigment Place Made: Nigeria DATES late 19th or early 20th century DIMENSIONS 7 x 6 1/2 x 12 in. (17.8 x 16.5 x 30.5 cm) (show scale) COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 12, 2016 18:44:40 GMT
Gelede Mask ARTS OF AFRICA CULTURE Yoruba MEDIUM Wood, pigment Place Made: Nigeria DATES 19th century DIMENSIONS 8 1/2 x 7 x 13 1/2 in. (21.6 x 17.8 x 34.3 cm) (show scale) COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 12, 2016 18:52:23 GMT
Egungun Dance Costume ARTS OF AFRICA CULTURE Yoruba MEDIUM Wood, cotton and wool textiles, aluminum GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS Possible place made: Ogbomosho, Oyo State, Nigeria Possible place made: Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria DATES mid 20th century DIMENSIONS est.: 55 x 6 x 63 in. (139.7 x 15.2 x 160 cm) (show scale) COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 12, 2016 18:54:40 GMT
Gelede Mask ARTS OF AFRICA CULTURE Yoruba MEDIUM Wood, pigment Place Made: Nigeria DATES late 19th or early 20th century DIMENSIONS 9 13/16 x 9 1/16 x 15 in. (24.9 x 23 x 38.1 cm) (show scale) COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 12, 2016 19:02:43 GMT
Gelede Mask with Bird on Head ARTS OF AFRICA CULTURE Yoruba MEDIUM Wood, pigment Place Made: Nigeria DATES late 19th or early 20th century DIMENSIONS 13 3/4 x 9 x 15 1/2 in. (34.9 x 22.9 x 39.4 cm) (show scale) COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 12, 2016 19:03:59 GMT
Gelede Mask ARTS OF AFRICA CULTURE Yoruba MEDIUM Wood Place Made: Nigeria DATES late 19th century DIMENSIONS 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (21.6 x 21.6 x 31.8 cm) (show scale) COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 12, 2016 19:05:46 GMT
Figure of a Devotee of Shango Holding an Oshe Shango ARTS OF AFRICA CULTURE Yoruba MEDIUM Wood, pigment Place Made: Nigeria DATES late 19th or early 20th century DIMENSIONS 15 x 4 15/16 x 5 3/4 in. (38.1 x 12.5 x 14.6 cm) (show scale) COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 12, 2016 19:06:59 GMT
Divination Board (Pako Ifa) ARTS OF AFRICA CULTURE Yoruba MEDIUM Wood Place Made: Nigeria DATES late 19th century DIMENSIONS 3/4 x 9 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (1.9 x 24.4 x 24.4 cm) (show scale) COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 12, 2016 19:08:25 GMT
Epa Mask Yoruba, Areogun of Osi, Areogun of Osi ARTS OF AFRICA On View: Great Hall, 1st Floor Epa masks are used in masking festivals commemorating the deeds of heroic ancestral warriors, whose stylized faces are represented at the bottom of this mask. These masquerades, which feature ritualized dances, are celebratory reenactments of ancient battles, part real and part mythical. The flanked figure on horseback is a potent reminder of the history of cavalry warfare on the northern edges of the Yoruba realms. ARTISTS Possibly Areogun of Osi, ca. 1880-1954; or possibly school of Areogun of Osi, ca. 1880-1954 MEDIUM Wood DATES late 19th or early 20th century DIMENSIONS 39 1/4 x 15 x 18 in. (99.7 x 38.1 x 45.7 cm) (show scale) COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 12, 2016 19:11:16 GMT
Gelede Helmet Mask of a Gendarme ARTS OF AFRICA On View: Double Take Installation, East Gallery, 1st Floor ART OF SATIRE Masks can be used for a variety of purposes, but they are particularly useful for expressing disapproval and thus reinforcing communal values. These two masks performed instructional and critical messages about proper behavior and political discontent. Male Yoruba dancers wear gelede masks at festivals honoring the women of the community. Gelede often serves as a showcase for artistic innovation, with its masks depicting motifs that are both entertaining and critical. This mask depicts a French gendarme, a colonial soldier, and was most likely performed as a critique of French personal and political behavior during the colonial period. The mask depicting Elvis Presley belonged to the Nyau society (to which all Chewa men belong), an institution that governs the spiritual realm of death and the ancestors. The society's masks represent the spirits of the deceased, but they may also represent wild bush spirits or caricature personalities from the wider community. Outsiders—including Swahili slave traders, British officials, the Virgin Mary, and other iconic foreigners such as Elvis Presley—have been considered representative of antisocial traits and undesirable values. This text refers to these objects: 1991.226.3; 2010.41 CULTURE Yoruba MEDIUM Wood, metal, pigment DATES early 20th century DIMENSIONS 10 x 7 x 11 in. (25.4 x 17.8 x 27.9 cm) (show scale) COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 12, 2016 19:12:32 GMT
Beaded Crown (Oríkògbòfó) ARTS OF AFRICA On View: Double Take Installation, East Gallery, 1st Floor ART OF INNOVATION These three works speak to the highly inventive history of Yoruba art. Incorporating outside materials, they each reflect how both a colonial past and global exchange shaped shifting ideas about local identity. Even this bead-embroidered crown, the ultimate symbol of Yoruba kingship, is the product of a complex global story. Although the Yoruba have a long history of glassmaking, the large, multicolored ade crown depicts figures wearing bowler hats and contains beads imported by the British in the late nineteenth century into what would soon become the Nigeria colony. The smaller beaded crown, known as an oríkògbòfó, is an evolution of the ade form, but it is modeled after the wig of a British barrister (lawyer), still worn in court today by members of the Nigerian judiciary. Yinka Shonibare, a British artist of Yoruba and Nigerian descent, used Dutch wax-printed fabric to create Skipping Girl. This material—a commodity associated with Africa but actually created in Europe, based on Indonesian designs, and sold in West Africa—serves as a symbol of the web of economic and cultural interrelationships among Africa, Asia, and Europe. Shonibare exposes cultural "authenticity" as an illusion and evokes the layers of historical connections among global cultures. This text refers to these objects: 70.109.1a-b; 2010.8; 2012.74 CULTURE Yoruba MEDIUM Beads, cloth, fiber DATES early 20th century DIMENSIONS 16 15/16 x 7 7/8 in. (43 x 20 cm) (show scale) COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 12, 2016 19:14:24 GMT
Kneeling Female Figure Holding a Bowl (Agere Ifa) ARTS OF AFRICA CULTURE Yoruba MEDIUM Wood, applied materials, (metal & beads in bag) DATES late 19th or early 20th century DIMENSIONS h: 11 3/3 in. (30.0 cm) (show scale) COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 12, 2016 19:15:02 GMT
Helmet Mask (Igbudu) ARTS OF AFRICA CULTURE Yoruba MEDIUM Wood, metal DATES 19th century DIMENSIONS 11 1/4 x 9 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (show scale) COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
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Post by Shymmex on Jan 12, 2016 19:16:19 GMT
Standing Male Figure (Ere Ibeji) ARTS OF AFRICA CULTURE Yoruba MEDIUM Wood DATES late 19th or early 20th century DIMENSIONS 10 3/8 x 4 in. (26.4 x 10.3 cm) (show scale) COLLECTIONS Arts of Africa
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