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Description: A Yoruba chief dancing in front of the king (oba) of Ìlá...

TitleA Yoruba chief dancing in front of the king (oba) of Ìlá Òràngún, Òsun State, Nigeria

Creator name (description)Photograph by John Pemberton III

Creator rolePhotographer

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsUnknown

LocationUnknown

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsYoruba (African people)--Rites and ceremonies

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Ìwàlewà: The Dialectics of Inner and Outer Beauty among the Yòrùbá

Babatunde Lawal

The Language of Beauty in African Art

Numbering more than twenty-five million people, the Yòrùbá inhabit the present-day Republics of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo...

Author

Babatunde Lawal

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.154-161

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00326.9

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22984&redirecttoanchor=83755

Chapter subject tags:Yoruba (African people)--Social life and customsMythology, YorubaSculpture, YorubaYoruba (African people)--FolkloreYoruba (African people)--Rites and ceremoniesArt, African--20th centuryAesthetics, AfricanFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Africa

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