Shango column; wood, kneeling woman w/ janus-faced headdress and 2 small figures and 1 head below woman; carved wood painted green-blue; 49.5 cms height.
Donor:
LeRoy M. Law
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
LeRoy M. Law
Collection date:
before 1968
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1968
Context of use:
Shango column; (Shango is God of Thunder) used for shrine.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 49.5 centimeters
Comment:
Located in Yoruba Teaching Kit, 7/25/06. (Murdock 31:31); part of African art teaching set; to be used as traveling exhibit for Bay area schools; File Code: 5.7 [crossed out on card]; 5. [handwritten on card: 1]
Loans:
S1968-1969 #125: Richmond High School (May 26, 1969–June 9, 1969), S1968-1969 #126: John F. Kennedy High School/Harry j. Reynolds (June 9, 1969–unknown), S1969-1970 #107: Dover Elementary School (April 10, 1970–April 13, 1970), S1969-1970 #108: Manzanita Elementary School/Leon Washington (April 14, 1970–April 20, 1970), S1969-1970 #127: Martin Luther King Jr. High School (May 26, 1970–May 28, 1970), S1969-1970 #23: Richmond High School (September 18, 1969–October 6, 1969), S1969-1970 #35: Berkeley High School (October 13, 1969–October 17, 1969), S1969-1970 #48: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (November 7, 1969–November 12, 1969), S1969-1970 #61: San Francisco Teaching Corps Project/Avery T. Allen (November 24, 1969–November 26, 1969), S1969-1970 #80: Mission High School (February 5, 1970–February 24, 1970), S1969-1970 #95: Manzanita Elementary School/Leon Washington (March 10, 1970–March 13, 1970), S1969-1970 #97: KQED Television (March 23, 1970–March 25, 1972), S1970-1971 #30: Hayward HIgh School/Mary Thomas (October 14, 1970–October 30, 1970), S1970-1971 #55: Valley View Intermediate School/Kay Derrico (November 18, 1970–November 25, 1970), S1970-1971 #57: Luther Burbank Jr. High School/Kathy Bennett (November 30, 1970–December 4, 1970), S1970-1971 #59: Vallejo Senior High School/Charlotte Echeverria (December 7, 1970–December 14, 1970), S1970-1971 #77: Mission High School/Minerva Barranco (February 4, 1971–February 11, 1971), S1970-1971 #86: Columbus School/Rena Wolfe (March 22, 1971–February 25, 1971), S1970-1971 #91: Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc./Betty Ng (March 1, 1971–March 5, 1971), S1971-1972 #107: Jefferson High School/Marie Perucca (March 6, 1972–March 11, 1972), S1971-1972 #119: Ravenswood School District/Jeannetta Dean (March 27, 1972–April 7, 1972), S1971-1972 #125: Webster School/Michael Powell (April 17, 1972–April 21, 1972), S1971-1972 #43: A. E. Kent Middle School/James King (November 1, 1971–November 8, 1971), S1971-1972 #49: Martin Luther King Jr. High School /Lou Sarna (November 9, 1971–November 22, 1971), S1971-1972 #75: Sleepy Hollow Elementary School (January 20, 1972–January 31, 1972), S1971-1972 #88: Cambridge Elementary School/Johnnie Hall (February 4, 1972–February 11, 1972), and S1971-1972 #91: Marin School/Meiling Shiroishi (February 14, 1972–February 18, 1972)