The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of August 13, 2022

Costume

1900s

Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Yorùbá-style maker

Cotton, velvet, flannel, leather, dye, probably wood, cowrie shells, metal

Overall: 152.4 x 58.4 x 40.6 cm (60 x 23 x 16 in.)

Gift of Katherine C. White 1976.188

Location

not on view

Citations
Aremu, P. S. O. "Between Myth and Reality: Yoruba Egungun Costumes as Commemorative Clothes." Journal of Black Studies 22, no. 1 (1991). p. 6-14 www.jstor.org
Drewal, Margaret Thompson. Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Fitzgerald, Mary Ann, Henry J. Drewal, and Moyo Okediji. "Transformation through Cloth: An Egungun Costume of the Yoruba." African Arts 28, no. 2 (1995) p. 55-57
Exhibition history

Year in Review, 1976. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1976.188