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Areogun was a prolific artist and carved many doors, house posts, masks and lidded bowls. This lidded bowl is typical of Areogun's best work-including the low-relief figures arranged in an orderly, tight composition. Several of the figures and attributes on the bowl suggest an association with Shango, god of thunder. Other images recall Eshu, the divine messenger and trickster, and Ogun, god of iron.

The spherical form and the lid's arches pierced by an iron spike suggest the Yoruba cosmos-a universe where change and transformation and interdependence and interaction are ever present.
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Bowl with lid, Artist: Attributed to Areogun of Osi-Ilorin (1880-1954), Yoruba peoples, Ekiti region, Nigeria, Early 19th to mid-20th century, Wood, pigment, iron

Author Cliff from Arlington, Virginia, USA
Camera location38° 53′ 16.88″ N, 77° 01′ 32.03″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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