Dance in Art

Headdress (Ago Egungun)

Ojerinde (died about 1914) Yoruba Abeokuta, Nigeria Coastal West Africa

Medium:

Wood and pigment

Collection:

Arts of Africa

Source:

aic

Rights:

CC0 (Public Domain)

Headdress (Ago Egungun), by Ojerinde (died about 1914) Yoruba Abeokuta, Nigeria Coastal West Africa, is a public-domain wood and pigment in the LODance gallery of dance in art. It's one of thousands of historic images tracing how dancing has been seen and celebrated across the centuries.