Tapper (Iroke Ifa)

1. William Wright, William Wright Gallery, New York, N.Y., by 1984 [this and the following according to object inventory card of R. Faletti, copy in curatorial file; personal communication from R. Faletti dated July 26, 2000]; sold to Richard J. Faletti (died 2006), Faletti Family Collection, Phoenix, Az., June 3, 1984 [invoice from William Wright Gallery dated June 3, 1984 in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 2000.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, N.Y., Center for African Art, Sets, Series, and Ensembles in African Art, July 15-Oct., 1985, no cat.
• Phoenix Art Museum, A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection, Dec. 13, 1997–Feb. 8, 1998, cat. 29; traveled to Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, May 14–June 28, 1998, Urbana-Champaign, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sept. 18 – Nov. 1, 1998; New York, N.Y., The Museum for African Art, Jan. 29-Mar. 28, 1999, Davenport Museum of Art, April 18–June 13, 1999, New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Sept. 12-Nov. 24, 1999, and The Boise Art Museum, Feb. 26–May 7, 2000.
• New York, N.Y., The Center for African Art, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, Sept. 21, 1989-Jan. 7, 1990. cat 112; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 10-Apr. 1, 1990, Washington, D.C., The National Museum of African Art, May 8-Aug. 26, 1990, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sept. 26-Dec. 9, 1990, The New Orleans Museum of Art, Jan. 11-March 24, 1991, Atlanta, Ga., The High Museum of Art, April 23-June 16, 1991, and The Phoenix Art Museum, Sep. 4-Oct. 6, 1991.
• Art Institute of Chicago, African Artistry: Gifts from the Faletti Family Collection, Oct. 5–May 18, 2003, Gallery 142, no. cat.

• Henry Drewal, John Pemberton III, and Roland Abiodun. Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought (Center for African Art, New York, 1989), pp. 109-111, fig. 112.
• Cory Micots, “Warrior Chiefs and Composite Animals: An Ivory Bracelet Attributed to Owo, Nigeria,” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 68 (1994), no. 3, p. 21, fig. 7.
• Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts, A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection (Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1997), pp. 9, 82; fig. 2, cat. 29 (ill.).
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 36, pp. 102-103 (ill.).

Òpó (veranda post) with equestrian and female figure

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lidded Vessel

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Panel Ornaments for Ceremonial Sword and Sheath (Udamalore)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Udàmalóre (ceremonial sword) and sheath with apete (panel ornaments)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ helmet mask

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Udàmalóre (ceremonial sword)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Agbádá (man’s ceremonial robe)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Adéńlá (big crown)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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