Yoruba (Yorba, Yorouba), Nigeria, Benin and Togo

Ceremonial Stool. The Yoruba people, numbering over 12 million, are the largest nation in Africa with an art-producing tradition. Most of them live in southwest Nigeria, with considerable communities further west in the Republic of Benin and in Togo, in an area of forest and savannah. They are divided into approximately twenty separate subgroups, which were traditionally autonomous kingdoms. Such a bronze stool with two symmetrical bas-reliefs with faces decorated with lizards is impressive and rather uncommon in Yoruba art.

Material: African bronze

Size: 14”x10½”x10½”

Price: $330+$40 (S&H)                                          [#R1Y6B614]