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Description : Additional Information: A stunning beaded Tunic from the Yoruba people. Lining is handwoven icotton fabric. Condition is good---a few  ,loose and  ,missing beads. These beaded tunics were made to be worn only by chiefs and Shango priests. A huge garment, extraordinarily heavy, heavily beaded on both sides with thousands of tiny glass beads. An elaborate multi-clor tunic covered with glass beads and decorated with schematic human faces, elephants, and geometric motifs. Such tunics were worn by shango priests during festivals, and at possession ceremonies. They are also known as diviner's vests. ,Divination (Ifa) plays and important role in the lives of the Yoruba determine their actions or explaining misfortunes. Colors and designs on this tunic play significant symbolic roles among the Yoruba people of Nigeria. Yellow and green beads are associated with Ifa, black and white beads with Eshu, red (orange here) and white beads are associated with , Orisha Shango. The blue is associated to the royalties. The significance of geometric motifs, lizards, snakes and human designs on this tunic is to be found in the mythology and Yoruba believes (see Daniel Mato &, Chelsea Cooksey. Yoruba: An Art of Life, p.27, fig. 10) Recommended Reading: YORUBA BEADWORK and BEADS BODY AND SOUL-ART AND LIGHT IN THE YORUBA UNIVERSE by Drewal and Mason. R. F. Thompson: Black Gods and Kings: Yoruba Art at UCLA, (Los Angeles, 1971) W. Fagg and J. Pemberton III: Yoruba Sculpture of West Africa, (New York, 1982) H. J. Drewal and J. Pemberton III, with R. Abiodun Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, (New York, 1989) Lawal, B.: The Gelede Spectacle. Art, Gender, and Social Harmony in an African Culture. (Seattle, London 1996) Witte, H.: A Closer Look, Local Styles in the Yoruba Art Collection of the Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal. 2004.  ,Daniel Mato, PhD. and Chelsea Cooksey, Yoruba: An Art of Life. The Benneth-Luther Collection, Africa Direct, 2004  ,  ,
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