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View full screenCeremonial dance wand, of carved wood in the form of a kneeling woman wearing a neckband of glass beads, surmounted by the double-axe symbol of Sango, the Yoruba god of thunder, which is carried by the priest of the Sango cult: Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Ilorin, Yoruba people, late 19th to early 20th century
A.1947.26
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Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria, Western Africa
Late 19th - early 20th century
Yoruba
Wood, carved and painted
Shango
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