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Temple Pillar, ca. 1900

  • Yoruba, African

Carved wood with pigments

  • Overall: 60 1/2 × 8 5/8 × 8 5/8 inches (153.7 × 21.9 × 21.9 cm)

Gift of Helen and William Mazer, 1984

1991.215.3

On View

  • African: Yoruba Spiritual Life

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

1984, gifted by Helen and William Mazer

1991-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Yoruba, African, Temple Pillar, ca. 1900, carved wood with pigments. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Helen and William Mazer, 1984, 1991.215.3.