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Description : Wood
Nigeria, West Africa, 1st half 20th century
Yoruba people
House post for a cult shrine
Mounted on a pedestal
Height: 161 cm
Very good condition
Object is regular taxed. 19% VAT is added to the purchase price for deliveries within the EU.
This house post is decorated with three anthropomorphic heads, their faces show the clan-typical tattoos. These posts serve as an architectural part of cult shrines and palaces of princes and kings where they mostly carry the courtyard side canopies. House posts are the most important and most outstanding sculptures of the art of the Yoruba. Apart from their function as figural support elements for roofs and corridors its symbolic task was to represent royal power and strength. The representation of the king, his family and his entourage showed his origin of important ancestors, as mother figures are mostly depictions of the queen mother: the continuation of the dynasty was embodied in the origin of the future king.
The post is in very good condition with minimal signs of age and wear. There are slight weather damages at the foot and some flaking to identify. On the post remains of an old polychrome paint can be seen. The height is 161 cm. (asi)Literature:
S. M. Vogel, African Aesthetics, The Carlo Monzino collection, p. 40 et seq.
K. F. Schädler, Afrikanische Kunst in deutschen Privatsammlungen, p. 162.
William Fagg, YORUBA Sculpture of Westafrica.
Robert F.Thompson, Black Gods and Kings, Youruba Art at UCLA, 1976, c.19/11/fig. 33.
Com. lit.: 204, Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American collections, 1989, p. 243.
H. J. Drewal and J. Pemberton III, YORUBA- nine centuries of African Art and thought. p. 19, 193, 198 et seq., 156 (field picture).
R. Abiodun, H. J. Drewal, J. Pemberton, YORUBA - Kunst u. Ästhetik in Nigeria, Museum Rietberg 1991, p. 82, 64.
Hrsg.: St. Eisenhofer, KULTE, KÜNSTLER, KÖNIGE in AFRIKA - Tradition und Moderne in Südnigeria.(Linz 1997) p. 294. Shipping costs excl. statutory VAT and plus 2,5% (+VAT) shipping insurance.
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