YORUBA GELEDE HEADDRESS 21

Photographs © Tim Hamill

YORUBA
GELEDE MASK 21
8" high
$300
SOLD

Gelede, a male association, uses the aesthetic power of sculpture, costume, song and dance to placate and please women, who have special spiritual power. Often with elaborate superstructures, the headdresses appear as identical pairs in the dances.

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