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Yorùbá

Dance Staff for Shango (Ose Shango)

Yoruba, 1800-1899

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Yorùbá

Dance Staff for Shango (Ose Shango)

Yoruba, 1800-1899

Physical Qualities Wood, 15 9/16 × 4 3/4 in. (39.5 × 12 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
Object Number 1991.122
depicting a kneeling woman surmounted by a double-celt (with a face on the front), holding her breasts

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2000–2000

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