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- Title
- Esu-Elegbara Dance Staff (ogo Esu-Elegbara)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria
- Physical Description
- At the top of the staff, a male and female supplicant peer from a cascade of cowries, brass beads, iron fragments, and seeds. Some cowries are stained with indigo dye. The lower bodies of the figures are concealed by the shell strands above. Their elongated hairstyles extend the overall verticality of the piece. The figure’s faces appear to be identical.
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1975
- Accession Number
- 2003/2.26
- Medium and Support
- wood, leather, cowrie shells, brass, iron, seeds
- relevance
- rank 16.25267
- Primary Keywords
- cowrie shell
- dance
- deity
- kinetic
- rattle
- staff, ceremonial