Yorùbá
Bowl-Bearing Equestrian Figure
Yoruba, 1800-1899
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Yorùbá
Bowl-Bearing Equestrian Figure
Yoruba, 1800-1899
Physical Qualities
Wood, white pigment, 28 H x 18.5 W x 17 D cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Russell L. Wade, Washington, D.C.
Object Number
1999.749
Spear in the proper right hand and a rope in the proper left hand attached to the horse's bridle; male figure wears a long gown which stands out at the sides; seated on a saddle; zigzag bridle across horse's nose.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1999; Jeffrey Hamer, New York
Thompson, Robert F., "Black gods and kings: Yoruba art at UCLA," Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976, c1971, ch. 3.
