The Egungun costumes below have been sold and are left here for educational purposes.
For UNSOLD Yoruba Costumes
GO TO EGUNGUN COSTUME
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 Egungun 1 73" high SOLD |
 Egungun 2 69" high SOLD |
 Egungun 5 53" high SOLD |
 Egungun 7 53" high SOLD |
 Egungun 9 61" high SOLD |
 Egungun 6 48" high SOLD |
 Egungun 3 68" high SOLD |
 Egungun 4 72" high SOLD |
 Egungun 18 78" high SOLD |
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Photographs © Hamill Gallery
YORUBA EGUNGUN COSTUMES 1
The word Egungun refers to masking associated with honored male
lineage ancestors. Egungun masquerades are performed throughout Yorubaland
but the costune styles are extremely diverse as a result of both regional
preferences and the fertile imagination of artists and patrons. Many Egungun
costumes consist entirely of costly and extravagantly embellished cloth
while others include carved headdresses.
--from African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
by Carol Ann Lorenz, Senior Curator
Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Colgate University.
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