Staff (Oshe Shango)
Unidentified Yoruba maker19th century
Wood
Overall: 18 in. (45.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H
S.972.20
Geography/Culture
Africa, Western Africa, Nigeria
Period
19th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Staff
Classification
Africa
Not on view
Course History
SART 65, Architecture I, Zenovia Toloudi, Spring 2015
REL 1, Patterns of Religious Experience, Elizabeth Perez, Fall 2013
REL 17, AAAS 83.5, African Religions of the Americas, Elizabeth Perez, Fall 2013
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R.Taylor, Fall 2013
AAAS 11, Introduction to African Studies, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
REL 7, Dark Goddesses and Black Madonnas, Elizabeth Perez, Winter 2013
Exhibition History
The Ritual Context of African Art, Dartmouth College Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 1-September 1, 1975.
Peoples and Cultures of Africa, Anthropology 44, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 29-December 18, 1994.
Nigerian Splendor, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 12-May 18, 1980.
Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 18, 2000.
Evolving Perspectives: Highlights from the African Art Collection at the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2013-April 6, 2014.
Divine Inspiration: from Benin to Bahia, Photographs by Phillys Galembo, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 17-April 21, 1996.
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009.
Basis for Design: Visual Problem Solving, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Studio Art 10, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 31-April 26, 1998.
Arts of West and Central Africa, The Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, Feburary 8-29, 1976.
African Images, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1972.
African Art: A Teaching Exhibition, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 44, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 31-December 6, 1998.
African Art from the Permanent Collection, Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-March 30, 1975.
"A Collector's Choice," William B. Jaffe Memorial Exhibition, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 8, 1972-January 7, 1973.
Publication History
Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1985, p. 68, no. 40.
Ellen C. Hvatum Werner, The Weaver's Muse: Heddle Pulleys of West Africa, The World of Tribal Arts Magazine, San Francisco: Tribarts, Inc., Autumn, 1997, IV: 2.
Barbara Thompson, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Seattle: University of Washington Press [Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College], 2008, p. 138, plate 43.
Barbara Thompson, "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," African Arts, Volume XXXVII, No. 2, Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California, 2004, ill. p. 21.
Provenance
Merton Simpson Gallery, New York; sold to Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York; given to present collection, 1972.
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