materials - clark university
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Materials: Wood, pigment tracesDimensions:12 ¼ in. in height; and 11 ½ in. in diameter.Cultural Identification: YorubaCountry: NigeriaArtist: Areogun of Osi-Ilorin. 1880-1956Classification: Ritual ObjectCurrent location: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the Richard B. Carter Gallery (African Art)Owner: William and Bertha Teel in 1991
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• Areogun of Osi-Ilorin is a recognized Nigerian sculptor.
• He was influenced by great African Artists.
• He was the first in his family to have become a carver.
• He developed his skills by becoming an apprentice, and an assistant for another sculptor for 16 years.
• Areogun is distinctive for portraying Yoruba culture in a narrative and “modernized” way (during his time). He also tends to repeat the same themes/ scenes in different artworks.
• His work was also influenced from his passed, when he experienced slavery. He depicts warriors wearing turbans, and carrying enlarged swords, and spears.
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Map of Nigeria showing the Yoruba sub-groups
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- The "Diviner's Bowl,” or Ifa bowl, classified as a ritual object, is a “shrine furniture” and was used for holding materials.
- Ifa is the oracle deity.
- Some of the carved scenes depict aspects of their daily life
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-Figures carved on the side of the bowl depict Yorubacharacters at the end of the 19th century
-The handle depicts a naked kneeling worshipper supporting a basket on her head (which is the joint of the bowl’s lid-Warrior flanked by a drummer and a horn player
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Frontal view (left side of drummer)-A Woman carrying on her head a pot.-A man carrying gun
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Right profile view-Woman with child holding a bowl- She depicts her biological role which is human fertility
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-The deity Eshu is a “provocateur”. -The artist was inspired by things in the world around him, including the exotic items like the bicycle introduced by the Europeans, as well as the book, and the pipe.
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Alisa LaGamma Beyond Master Hands: The Lives of the Artists African Arts.UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center. 1998.
AlvanMillson. The Yoruba Country, West Africa. Blackwell publishing , Great Britain, 1891.
Jean M. Borgatti. UCLA's Yoruba Doors.African Arts. UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center. 1969
Henry John Drewal. Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought. New York: Center African Art in Association with H.N Abrams. 1989
African Art: Diviner’s Bowl (oponigedeu). www.mfa.org