Òpá òrìsà Oko (Staff with Beaded Sheath and Crown)
Unidentified Yoruba maker
early-mid-20th century
Iron and wood with glass trade beads, cloth, hide, and thread
Overall: 56 1/2 in. (143.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall
S.973.322
Geography
Place Made: Nigeria, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Staff
Research Area
Africa
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 85, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Fall 2014
Exhibition History
Recent Acquisitions, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 17-27, 1974.
Rotunda, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 16-October 1974.
The Ritual Context of African Art, Dartmouth College Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 1-September 1,1975; The Center for African Art, New York, New York, September 20, 1989-Janaury 7, 1990; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, February 10-April 1, 1990; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, Spetember 26-December 9, 1990; The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 11-March 24, 1991; The High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, April 13-June 16, 1991.
Publication History
Drewal, Pemberton and Abiodun; Edited by Allen Wardell. Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought. The Center for African Art in association with Harry N. Abrahms Inc., Publishers, New York, 1989.
Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1985, p. 70, no. 42.
Provenance
Collected in Ikere, Nigeria; Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005); given to present collection, 1973.
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