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Photo by Tom Joyce
Staff, (Orisha Oko)
Photo by Tom Joyce

Staff, (Orisha Oko)

Date19th century
Culture of Origin Yoruba
Object number2007.212
Photo CreditPhoto by Tom Joyce
Exhibition HistoryAsheville, North Carolina, Life Force at the Anvil, A Blacksmith's Art from Africa, May 22 - August 28, 1998Published 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
Credit LinePartial gift of Tom Joyce and partial purchase with funds from John and Robyn Horn
Dimensions59 1/2 x 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (151.1 x 8.3 x 8.3 cm)
MediumIron, wood
Photo: Paul Macapia
Native American
ca. 1860
Object number: 91.1.37
Photo by Tom Joyce
Matakam
19th - 20th century
Object number: 2007.126
Double-handled jar
Alfonso Patanazzi
ca. 1600 - 10
Object number: 48.33
Photo by Tom Joyce
Ngbaka
19th century
Object number: 2007.206
Photo by Tom Joyce
Ngelima
19th - 20th century
Object number: 2007.167
Photo by Tom Joyce
Ngbaka
19th - 20th century
Object number: 2007.163
Photo by Tom Joyce
Madagoli
19th - early 20th century
Object number: 2007.179
Photo by Tom Joyce
Madagoli
19th - 20th century
Object number: 2007.180
Photo by Tom Joyce
Kwele
19th century
Object number: 2007.204
Wooden Pipe (mythic creatures)
Native American
ca. 1870
Object number: 91.1.115
Figure of Mercury
Roman
ca. 1st century
Object number: 68.201