Partial gift of Tom Joyce and partial purchase with funds from John and Robyn Horn
2007.212
Photo by Tom Joyce
Not currently on view
Resources
Exhibition HistoryAsheville, North Carolina, Life Force at the Anvil, A Blacksmith's Art from Africa, May 22 - August 28, 1998
Published ReferencesDrewal, Henry John and John Pemberton III, and Rowland Abiodun. Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought. New York: Center for African Art, 1989 p.163-170
Fischer, Werner and Manfred A. Zimgibi, trans. David Miller. African Weapons: Knives, Daggers, Swords, Axes, Throwing Knives, Passan, Germany: Prinz-Verlag, 1978 p.12-13
Eyo, Ekpo and Frank Willett. Arts du Nigeria. Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 1997 p. 253
Thompson, Robert Farris. Yoruba at UCLA: Black Gods and Kings, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976 ch. 10 p.1-10
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