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    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Divination Palm Nut Bowl (Agere Ifa)

    Date: 
    early 20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood and pigment

    Accession Number: 
    2006.51.536
    Culture: 
    Yorùbá
    Period: 
    20th century
    Classification: 
    Containers - Wood
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Kneeling Maternity Figure with Bowl in the Shape of a Chicken (Olumeye)

    Date: 
    early 20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood and pigment

    Accession Number: 
    2006.51.542
    Culture: 
    Yorùbá, Èkìti subgroup
    Period: 
    20th century
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Figure Representing Èsù

    Date: 
    late 19th–early 20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood, hide, and cowrie shells

    Accession Number: 
    2006.51.198
    Culture: 
    Yorùbá
    Period: 
    19th–20th century
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Ògún Helmet Mask

    Artist: James Ajala, Nigerian, born ca. 1930
    Date: 
    early to mid-20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood, fiber, hide, nails, and encrustation

    Accession Number: 
    2006.51.253
    Culture: 
    Yorùbá
    Period: 
    20th century
    Classification: 
    Masks
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Divination Tapper (Iro Ifa)

    Date: 
    19th century
    Medium: 

    Ivory

    Accession Number: 
    2006.51.76
    Culture: 
    Yorùbá
    Period: 
    19th century
    Classification: 
    Tools and Equipment
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Figure of Èsù in a Bowl

    Date: 
    early 20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood and mud

    Accession Number: 
    2006.51.447
    Culture: 
    Yorùbá
    Period: 
    20th century
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Prestige Cloth (Aṣọ-òkè)

    Date: 
    19th century
    Medium: 

    Hand-spun and imported industrial cotton and silk (alaari)

    Accession Number: 
    2019.53.1
    Culture: 
    Yorùbá
    Period: 
    19th century
    Classification: 
    Textiles
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Divination Tray (Opon Ifa)

    Artist: Master of the Caryatid Tray
    Date: 
    late 19th century
    Medium: 

    Wood, camwood, and chalk

    Accession Number: 
    1973.35
    Culture: 
    Yorùbá
    Period: 
    19th century
    Classification: 
    Tools and Equipment
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Male Equestrian Figure

    Artist: Maku of Erin, died 1915
    Date: 
    late 19th–early 20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood, beads, string, and metal

    Accession Number: 
    2006.51.229
    Culture: 
    Yorùbá
    Period: 
    19th–20th century
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    On view
    Collection Objects
    African Art

    Mask, “The Owner of the Deep Set Eyes” (Olójú Foforo), Surmounted by a Figure of the Priestess of the Goddess Òsun

    Artist: Areogun-Yanna of Osi-llorin, Yoruba, 1880–1954
    Date: 
    early to mid-20th century
    Medium: 

    Wood, pigment, string, and fiber

    Accession Number: 
    2006.51.298
    Culture: 
    Yorùbá, Èkìti subgroup
    Period: 
    20th century
    Classification: 
    Sculpture
    Status: 
    On view