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Description : Additional Information: A beautifuly ornate carving of an Orisha, or Yoruba diety. , The profile reveals a serpent-like shape, capped by a fabulous and towering haristyle. , The teeth are fierce, and she holds what look like musical instruments in her hands. , She is seated on a decorated stool, which indicates her royalty as an Orisha. , We are unsure of which Orisha this figure represents.There is a large corpus of Yoruba sculpture known and identified as to symbol and meaning identified to the various orishas or deities. Yoruba traditional religion has a structured pantheon of the deities known as Orisha numbering between 400 and 700 individual Yoruba gods that may share powers and attributes that are articulated in sculptural form. Further Readings:R. F. Thompson: Black Gods and Kings: Yoruba Art at UCLA, (Los Angeles, 1971) M. H. Houlberg: Ibeji Images of the Yoruba , African Arts, vii/1, 1973, pp. 20-27, 91-2 M. Stoll and G. Stoll: Ibeji: Twin Figures of the Yoruba, (Munich, 1980) Abiodun, A, H. J. Drewal and J. Pemberton III: Yoruba Art and Aesthetics, (Zurich,1991)Recommended Reading:R. F. Thompson: Black Gods and Kings: Yoruba Art at UCLA, (Los Angeles, 1971)W. Fagg and J. Pemberton III: Yoruba Sculpture of West Africa, (New York, 1982)H. J. Drewal and J. Pemberton III, with R. Abiodun Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, (New York, 1989)  ,
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