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Container lid (Erinle)
Container lid (Erinle)

Container lid (Erinle)

Object number81.17.622
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, California, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, African Art in Motion: Icon and Act, Jan. 20 - Mar. 17, 1974 (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, May 5 - Sept. 22, 1974). Text by Robert Farris Thompson. No cat. no., p. 154, 156, reproduced pl. 193 (as "erinle" figurated pot-lid).
Credit LineGift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
Dimensions12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm) Diam.: 3 15/16 in.
MediumTerracotta and pigment
Container (Opon)
Yoruba
Object number: 81.17.620
Container for Votive Offerings(?):  Kernos
Cycladic
2200-1900 B.C.
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Lekanis (Kylix) with Lid
Greek
375 B.C. -350 B.C.
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Photo: Paul Macapia
Yoruba
1920-40
Object number: 81.17.587
Photo: Paul Macapia
Yoruba
Object number: 81.17.584
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Yoruba
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Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Yoruba
Object number: 2013.20.6
Photo: Paul Macapia
Southwestern Yoruba
early 20th century
Object number: 81.17.585
Divination bowl (Agere Ifa)
Yoruba
19th century
Object number: 81.17.617
Photo: Paul Macapia
Southwestern Yoruba
early 20th century
Object number: 81.17.589
Verandah post (Opo)
Yoruba
Object number: 81.17.626