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Ife Art Nigeria

Terracottas


Child of Obatala (creation divinity). The sculpture probably depicts a ritual specialist indicated by the bead on his forehead and the skull pendant.	Probable image of a queen with an elaborately beaded headdress.

http://hum.lss.wisc.edu/hjdrewal/Ife.html

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DEWEY NUMBERS for African art include:

709 History of art

709.011 Art, African - History

709.67 Art,African - Influence

720.9 History of architecture

728.0966 African buildings

730.96 Masks, African

732.2 Art, Yoruba