Yoruba Ritual Painting
Natural Red Pigment for ritual painting
Paint pot
feather
Painting brushes
Head of an Ooni probably used in Kingship
Rituals,
800-500 BP
Epa,
Yoruba, Nigeria
Wood, pigments
20th century
Painting the head of an infant
In the ritual of
“knowing the inner head”
Orisa Priestess with painted forehead
Obatala shrine, Ile Ife, Nigeria
Orisa Popo Shrine
Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Ritual painting inside a
Museum, Osogbo, Nigeria
Oja’ba Shrine Painting, Natural Pigments on Adobe Walls, Osogbo, Nigeria
Vanessa Rosa and Project Sankofa , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2016
Sacred painting on the façade of a shrine in Ayegunle-Ekiti, Nigeria
Sacred Painting for Ogun, Ilesa, Nigeria
Oluorogbo shrine painting
Ile Ife, Nigeria
Women writing on the ground at the beginning of the annual painting rituals
Women painters in front of their work, Ijero Ekiti, Nigeria
Priestess of Obaluaye
Ile Ife, Nigeria
The painting process,
Ile Ife, Nigeria
Orisaikire Shrine painting, Ile Ife, Nigeria
Michael Harris,
Love Shrine,
Mixed media,
1995
Michael Harris,
Soul Chart,
Mixed media
1995
Rotimi Fani-Kayode,
Soponna, Yoruba deity of the Poxes
Photograph, 1987
Laolu Senbanjo,
Afromysteric Sacred Art of the
Ori series—
For Beyonce-Lemonde
Body painting
2016
Laolu Senbanjo
Afromysteric—Sacred Art of the
Ori series
For Beyonce—Lemonde
Body painting
2016
Laolu Senbanjo,
Sacred Art of the Ori series
Body painting
2016
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Bolaji Campbell,
Re-creation
Soil on canvas,
1994/6
Bolaji Campbell,
Ahun,
Soil on burlap,
1999
Bolaji Campbell,
Alaamu,
Soil on canvas,
1996
Bolaji Campbell, and the chameleon said…, oil on canvas, 2000