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Kenneth Palmer Collection 1982

West African Doors

2005.4.0066 - 2005.4.0069

2005.4.0070

148.5 cm high 61 cm high

 

Gelede masks
Gelede Masks: Nigeria (Yoruba).
"The Gelede festival pays tribute to female mystical power of ancestors, elders, and deities. These women are known as "our mothers." The power of "our mothers" is at once constructive, relating to fertility, knowledge of the secret of life, and also destructive, a surreptitious power, aje, which is more like witchcraft (Drewal, H. and Drewal M.T. 1983. Gelede. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 8)."

E-3997

28.5 cm high 33.5 cm diameter

E-3998

33 cm high 33 cm diameter

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E-3995

15 cm high 33 cm diameter

E-4115

19.5 cm high 29 cm diameter


Yoruba helmet masks

E-3976

127 cm high 31 cm diameter


Bini oba effigy figure: Nigeria


Bini percussion gong replica: Nigeria

38 cm high


Igbo masks

 


Ibo Maiden spirit mask: Nigeria

E-2978

70 cm high

Yoruba Epa helmet masks: Nigeria

 

117 cm high 32.5 cm diameter

 

Yoruba edan figures, Ogboni society: Nigeria

E-3981

66 cm high 10 cm wide


Yoruba-drum
Brass and horse-rider
Yoruba-stool

ff

E-3983

52.5 cm high 25 cm wide

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E-3972

33 cm high 23.5 cm diameter

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