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Areogun of Osi-Ilorin, Yorùbá

Opon Igede (Container)

1929-1938

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Areogun of Osi-Ilorin, Yorùbá

Opon Igede (Container)

1929-1938

Physical Qualities Wood, Overall: 15 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (39.4 × 44.5 cm.)
Credit Line The Amy Gould/Matthew Polk Fund
Object Number 2022.52
Gert Stoll and Mareidi Singer, Galerie Schwarz – Weiss, Munich and Essen, Germany, early 1960s
Ex collection Ludwig Bretschneider (1909-1987) Munich, Germany, purchased from above, mid 1960s
Ex collection Loed van Bussel (1935-2018) Amsterdam, The Netherlands, purchased from above
Ex Loed van Bussel estate , Amsterdam.
Kevin Carroll, Yoruba Religious Carving: Pagan and Christian Sculpture in Nigeria and Dahomey, New York: Praeger,1967

William Buller Fagg, John Pemberton, and Bryce Holcombe, Yoruba: Sculpture of West Africa, New York: Alfred A Knopf Publishers, 1984.

Artist

Areogun of Osi-Ilorin

Nigerian, c. 1880-1954
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