Abogunde of Ede and Yorùbá
Dance Staff for Shango (Ose Shango)
Yoruba, 1800-1899
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Wood, pigment, 13 3/4 × 4 1/16 in. (35 × 10.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
Object Number
1991.124
depicting a kneeling female figure surmounted by a double-celt, holding her breasts
Afro-Atlantic Histories
Thompson, Robert F., "Black gods and kings: Yoruba art at UCLA," Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976, c1971, ch. 3&12.
