Robert Farris Thompson (Abatan; A Master Potter of the Egbado Yoruba, Tradition and Creativity in Tribal Art, ed. D. Biebuyck, UCLA, 1969, pp.120 et seq.) discusses the work of of Abatan, a potter who arrived in Oke-Odan from the northern Egbado about 1915, and who specialised in making vessels for the cult of Eyinle (Erinle), a hunter god extensively worshipped amongst the more northern Yoruba. The pots are called "vessels for the stones of Eyinle" and the covers were modelled with a crown-like half figure of a female holding a small bowl for kola nuts. The head of the present figure is almost identical to one in the Smithsonian Institution illustrated by Thompson on Pl. 86, which has the conventional bared breasts rather than the decorated tunic worn by ours: he tentatively places the date of the Smithsonian example in the 1920s/1930s, "Period I" of Abatan's work, and relates that her fame spread throughout Yorubaland