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Yorùbá and Awori

Dance Staff for Shango (Ose Shango)

Yoruba, 1867

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Dance Staff for Shango (Ose Shango)

Yoruba, 1867

Physical Qualities Wood, pigment, 18 7/8 x 5 1/8 x 2 15/16 in. (48 x 13 x 7.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
Object Number 1991.123
depicting a kneeling woman surmounted by a double-celt, holding an inverted double celt in her left hand; tubular pendant on breast
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7-May 8, 2016.

Kanitra Fletcher, Steven Nelson, and Molly Donovan, National Gallery of Art, "Afro-Atlantic Histories". National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD, 10 April 2022- 17 July 2022, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 11 December 2022 - 30 September 2023, Dallas Museum of Art, 22 October 2023- 11 February 2024.
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.155, ill.

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