Esu Dance Staff (Ogo Elegbara)

1. Jay N. Whipple, Jr. (died 2018) and Anne Reisse Whipple, Lake Forest, Ill., by 1979 [see Cordwell and Schwarz, 1979, plate 27]; given to The Art Institute, 1991.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Center for African Art, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, Sept. 21, 1989–January 7, 1990, cat. 249; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 10–Apr. 1, 1990, Washington D.C., National Museum of African Art, May 8–Aug. 26, 1990, Cleveland Museum of Art, Sept. 26–Dec. 9, 1990, New Orleans Museum of Art, Jan. 11–Mar. 24, 1991, Atlanta, High Museum, Apr. 23–June 16, 1991, Phoenix Art Museum, Sept. 4-Oct. 6, 1991.

• Justine M. Cordwell and Ronald Schwarz, eds., The Fabrics of Culture: The Anthropology of Clothing and Adornment (Paris: Mouton Publishers, 1979), pl. 27 (ill.).
• Robert Plant Armstrong. The Powers of Presence: Consciousness, Myth, and Affecting Presence (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981), pl. 17 (ill.).
• Yourba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, exh. cat. (The Center for African Art, New York, 1989), p. 216, fig. 249.
• Moyo Okediji, "Art of the Yoruba," Museum Studies, vol. 23, no. 2 (1997), pp. 177-178 (ill.).
• Sarah Watson Parsons, "Interpreting Projections, Projecting Interpretations: A Reconsideration of the Phallus in Esu Iconography," African Arts vol. 32, no. 2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 37 (ill.).
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 38, pp. 104-105 (ill.).

Twin Figures (Ere Ibeji)

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Tapper (Iroke Ifa)

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Crown (Ade)

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Mask for Egungun (Ere Egungun)

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Mask for Egungun (Ere Egungun)

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Jar

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Tunic

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Headdress for Gelede (Igi)

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