Fagbite Asamu, Yorùbá, and others
Headdress (Igi Gèlèdé Oníjàkadi)
Yoruba, 1933
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- Artist: Fagbite Asamu
- Culture: Yorùbá
- Artist: Falola Edun
Headdress (Igi Gèlèdé Oníjàkadi)
Yoruba, 1933
Physical Qualities
Wood, paint, 20 9/16 x 16 3/8 x 11 1/8 in. (52.2 x 41.6 x 28.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alan and Janet Wurtzburger
Object Number
1954.32
Gelede ritual
African Reinstallation, "Public Art," April 2015, Wurtzburger Galleries, BMA, Kathryn Gunsch.
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p. 115, ill.
Babatunde Lawal, "Ejiwapo: The Dialectics of Twoness in Yoruba Art and Culture," African Arts. Los Angeles: UCLA, 2008, 41.1, p. 37, ill.
On View: Wurtzburger, Gallery
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