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Veranda Post with Divination Priest (Babalawo) and Drummer
Veranda Post with Divination Priest (Babalawo) and Drummer

Veranda Post with Divination Priest (Babalawo) and Drummer

Artist Lamidi Olonade Fakeye Nigerian, Yorùbá, Ila Orangun 1928–2009
Date1984
MediumIroko wood
Dimensions101 3/4 x 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (258.4 x 24.1 x 24.1 cm)
ClassificationsWood
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object number2001.9.3
On View
On view
ProvenanceThe artist, Nigeria; purchased by NCMA 2001.Published ReferencesLamidi Olonade Fakeye with Bruce M. Haight and David H. Curl, Lamidi Olonade Fakeye: A Retrospective Exhibition and Autobiography (Holland, Michigan: DePree Art Center and Gallery, Hope College, 1996), illus. (b-w) 203 (works are misidentified in caption).

Lamidi Fakeye, video by Christine Black for the Smithsonian Institution Natural History Museum, 1999.

Mary Ellen Soles, "Accent on Africa: Recent Acquisitions of African Art," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (March/April 2003), briefly discussed 8.

Rebecca Martin Nagy and Dennis P. Weller, entry for Veranda Post with Divination Priest (Babaláwo) and Drummer, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 122, illus. (color) 123.

Kinsey Katchka, "Lamidi Fakeye Sculpture at the North Carolina Museum of Art," in African Arts 44, no. 1 (Spring 2011), discussed and illus. (color) 5.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Accent on Africa: Recent Acquisitions of African Art," April 6-August 10, 2003, brochure no. 1, illus. (b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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