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Bowl-Bearing Figure

Yorùbá, Agbonbiofe, and others

Bowl-Bearing Figure

Yoruba, Ekiti area, 1900-1932

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Bowl-Bearing Figure

Yoruba, Ekiti area, 1900-1932

Physical Qualities Wood, 12 3/16 x 6 x 6 5/16 in. (31 x 15.3 x 16 cm.)
Credit Line Anonymous Gift
Object Number 1999.571
The Baltimore Museum of Art by anonymous gift, 1999; Sotheby's, London, Sale #3341, Lot 200, 11/30/1987
Thompson, Robert F., "Black gods and kings: Yoruba art at UCLA," Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976, c1971, ch. 3&5.

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Agbonbiofe

2000–2000

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Obembe Olaiye

2000–2000

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