Fine African Art Auction
Lot 3:
Yoruba Shango staff Nigeria, 20th century Length 21.5 inches. Small chip to back.
The Yoruba religious world has a pantheon of deities called Orishas, whose identities and attributes are recorded in ritual objects. Priests and devotees of shango, the fiery god of thunder and lightning, commission dance staffs to evoke his striking power and protection. These usually depict a sensuous female figure bearing in her head the twin Celts or double axe emblem of shango. This polished staff, which may include a child on the woman’s back may have come from Agbeji compound of ijomu in igbomina- Oro region
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