YORUBA GELEDE HEADDRESS 5
Photographs © Tim Hamill
YORUBA, GELEDE MASK #5, 14", Nigeria $800
Gelede, a male association, uses the aesthetic power of
sculpture, costume, song and dance to placate and please women, who have
special spiritual power. Often with elaborate superstructures, the headdresses
appear as identical pairs in the dances.
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