YORUBA EGUNGUN COSTUME 8
Nigeria
Photographs © Tim Hamill
Yoruba
Egungun 8
66" high
$3000
The word Egungun refers to masking associated with honored male
lineage ancestors. Egungun masquerades are performed throughout Yorubaland
but the costune styles are extremely diverse as a result of both regional
preferences and the fertile imagination of artists and patrons. Many Egungun
costumes consist entirely of costly and extravagantly embellished cloth
while others include carved headdresses.
--from African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
by Carol Ann Lorenz, Senior Curator
Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Colgate University.
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