| Object Number |
AF2002 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Yoruba | Epa Society |
| Provenience |
Nigeria |
| Section |
African |
| Materials |
Wood |
| Iconography |
Janus Head | Man | Horse | Attendant | Equestrian |
| Description |
Wooden mask: man on horseback with attendants. |
| Height |
120 cm |
| Width |
60 cm |
| Credit Line |
Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1912 |
| Other Number |
25964 - Dealer's Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Wardwell, Allen. African Sculpture from the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1986. See: pp. 60-61, fig. 15 |
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| Barnes, Sandra T., and Paula G. Ben-Amos. "Benin, Oyo, and Dahomey: Warfare, State Building, and the Sacralization of Iron in West African History." Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 25, no. 2. (1983): 5-14. See: p. 9, fig. 5 |
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| Plass, Margaret B. "African Negro Sculpture: A Walk Through the Gallery." The University Museum Bulletin 21, no. 4. ( Dec 1957): 5-76. See: p. 8 |
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| Plass, Margaret B. African Tribal Sculpture. The University Museum, 1956. See: p. 29 |
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| Wingert, Paul S. African Negro Sculpture. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, 1948. |
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| Wieschhoff, H. A. "II. The Cultures of Africa." The University Museum Bulletin XI, no. 1-2. (1945): 34-72. See: p. 53, fig. 18 |
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| Hall, Henry U. "The African Collections." The University Museum Bulletin 3, no. 6. (1932): 145-171. See: p. 168-169, pl. XI |
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| Hall, Henry U. "Fetish Figures of Equatorial Africa." The Museum Journal 11, no. 1. (1920): 27-55. See: p. 49, fig. 30 |
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| Hall, Henry U. "Some Gods of the Yoruba." The Museum Journal 8, no. 1. (1917): 53-59. See: p. 52, fig. 18 |
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