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Dance Staff for Shango (Ose Shango)

Abogunde of Ede and Yorùbá

Dance Staff for Shango (Ose Shango)

Yoruba, 1800-1899

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Dance Staff for Shango (Ose Shango)

Yoruba, 1800-1899

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.

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