Door Artist: Osamuko(?)

late 19th–early 20th century

African Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Wood and nails

Dimensions

58 × 24 × 3 in. (147.32 × 61 × 7.62 cm)

Credit Line

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund

Accession Number

2012.107.1

Geography

Osi Ilorin, Ekiti, Nigeria

Culture

Yorùbá

Period

19th–20th century

Classification

Architectural Elements

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Provenance
Wahigalo Nouhoun, originally from Mali, lived in Monrovia and Ivory Coast: unknown date–2005
Wahigalo Nouhoun sold to Charles Jones, Wilmington, NC: 2005–2012
Charles Jones sold to Yale University Art Gallery in 2012

Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
Additional information

Object/Work type

doors

Subject

antelopes children (people by age group) drums (membranophones) equestrians flutes (aerophones) hats men pipes (smoking equipment) snakes spears (weapons) tortoises women

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