Osanyin staff

1900s

Culture

Yoruba

Locale

West Africa

Object

staff

Medium

Wrought iron

Accession Number

2015.670

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Robert Cumming

Yoruba artist, Osanyin staff, 1900s. Wrought iron; 23⅞ x 11 in. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Mary and Robert Cumming, 2015.670

Dimensions

height: 27 3/8 in, 69.5325 cm; diameter: 11 in, 27.9400 cm

Department

Native Arts

Collection

Arts of Africa

This object is currently on view

Known Provenance

Gallery Affrica, Washington, D.C., before 1990s; Collection of Robert (Bob) and Mary Cumming (b. about 1947), Baltimore, MA, about 1990s-2015; Gifted to Denver Art Museum, 2015

Exhibition History

Fine Arts Museum of the South (now Mobile Museum of Art), Mobile, AL, 2/1994