Object Title
Figurated Shrine Post from the Agbeni Shango Shrine
Measurements
153.7 x 16.5 cm
Creation Date
1910-1937
Credit Line
Ex coll. William S. Arnett
Museum Name
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/18438/figurated-shrine-post-from-the-agbeni-shango-shrine?ctx=0b46a6c2b57759b1a85e440d3052acb7860d546c&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 75 years
Provenance Information
Ex coll. William S. Arnett (1939-2020), Atlanta, Georgia.
Exhibition Information
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, Rotation 1, December 15, 1995 - February 1997
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, November 19, 2007 - December 1, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, November 19, 2007 - December 1, 2014
Publication Information
Eva Meyerowitz, "Notes on the King-God Shango and His Temple at Ibadan, Southern Nigeria," Man 47 (March - April 1946): 25, figure 2.
Geoffrey Parrinder, Religion in an African City (London: Oxford University Press, 1953), figure 3.
Tim Gordon and Michael Lancaster, "Orisha Houses in Ibadan," Ibadan (February 1961): 22-23.
Norma H. Wolff and D. Michael Warren, "The Agbeni Shango Shrine in Ibadan: A Century of Continuity," African Arts 31 (Summer 1998): 38, 40.
Geoffrey Parrinder, Religion in an African City (London: Oxford University Press, 1953), figure 3.
Tim Gordon and Michael Lancaster, "Orisha Houses in Ibadan," Ibadan (February 1961): 22-23.
Norma H. Wolff and D. Michael Warren, "The Agbeni Shango Shrine in Ibadan: A Century of Continuity," African Arts 31 (Summer 1998): 38, 40.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Purchased by museum in 1994. Provenance research is ongoing to confirm this object was collected legally and ethically.