Abogunde of Ede and Yorùbá
Dance Staff for Shango (Ose Shango)
Yoruba, 1800
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
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.
