Fly Whisk with Standing Male Figure

Yorùbá

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Caption

Yorùbá. Fly Whisk with Standing Male Figure, late 19th or early 20th century. Leather, copper alloy, 5 1/4 x 22 1/2 in. (13.3 x 52.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Abbott A. Lippman to the Jennie Simpson Educational Collection of African Art, 72.172.5. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

Arts of Africa

Culture

Yorùbá

Title

Fly Whisk with Standing Male Figure

Date

late 19th or early 20th century

Geography

Place made: Nigeria

Medium

Leather, copper alloy

Classification

(not assigned)

Dimensions

5 1/4 x 22 1/2 in. (13.3 x 52.2 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Abbott A. Lippman to the Jennie Simpson Educational Collection of African Art

Accession Number

72.172.5

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