A RARE YORUBA DOOR, for a shango shrine, carved in relief with two tiers of figures below a panel of interlaced ornament and above a horizontal sword, from the Igbomina/Oshogbo area of central Yorubaland

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A RARE YORUBA DOOR, for a shango shrine, carved in relief with two tiers of figures below a panel of interlaced ornament and above a horizontal sword, from the Igbomina/Oshogbo area of central Yorubaland
1m.75cm. high

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References to shango are to be found in the calabash and implements carried by many of the figures carved on the door, in the gestures with sexual implications, and symbols of might, such as the sword.

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