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Yoruba Art

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January/February 2008 [1]
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Hallie Ford Museum of Art
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Salem
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OR
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United States

The Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin are renowned artists. Each spring, men don intricately carved headdresses for a celebration called the Gelede masquerade honoring the community’s women. This ornate version appears with other ritual objects in Yoruba Sculpture: Selections from the Mary Johnston Collection at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Ore., from January 19 to March 16. (503) 370-6855 www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art [2].

Photography courtesy Hallie Ford Museum of Art/Frank Miller

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Hallie Ford Museum of Art [3]
Yoruba Art and Culture [4]
A Guide to Salem [5]

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