Staff with Beaded Sheath and Crown (Opa Orisha Oko)
Yoruba people, Nigeria, Western Africa, Africa
early-mid-20th century
Iron and wood
Overall: 56 1/2 in. (143.51 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall
S.973.322
Geography/Culture
Africa, Western Africa, Nigeria
Period
20th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Staff
Classification
Africa
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 85, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Fall 2014
Exhibition History
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.
Rotunda, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 16-October 1974.
Recent Acquisitions, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 17-27, 1974.
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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