Ancestral Post

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Ancestral Post

Yoruba artistLinkedCulture matchlcp-ddd60c9b2fa5

Date
c. 1910
Medium
Wood, pigment, metal
Culture
Yoruba
Department
Arts of Global Africa
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
89618

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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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Credit line
The William Hood Dunwoody Fund and Gift of funds from Kevin and Polly Hart

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