Minneapolis Institute of Art
Ancestral Post
Yoruba artist
- Date
- c. 1910
- Medium
- Wood, pigment, metal
- Culture
- Yoruba
- Department
- Arts of Global Africa
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Most of the African master carvers remain unidentified. But some artists are known, and are still remembered and celebrated today. Agbonbiofe, a member of the famous Adeshina carver family, is one of them. He made this post for a Yoruba royal palace, where it supported the roof of a veranda lining the king’s reception courtyard. The two-tiered composition depicts a mounted king wearing a conical crown like the one on view nearby and a kneeling female figure that supports and sustains the king. Nigeria
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