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Sacred and Secular Painting: Uli and Yoruba Orisa Painting
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Uli—practiced by women in Igbo land Orisa painting—practiced by women in Yorubaland ancient art of decorating the walls and shrines of ancestral divinities Materials: Natural pigments: Red ocher, yellow ocher, white/kaolin Egg shells Plant juices—indigo, vines, berries and pods Paint brushes, rags, feathers, pots, calabashes
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Natural Red Pigment for ritual painting
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Paint pot Painting brushes feather
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Uli Painting
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Uli design patterns
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Uli decorations
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Uli painting on communal shrine, igbo, Nigeria
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Uli shrine wall at Nri, Igbo, Nigeria
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Uli painting, Igbo, Nigeria
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Uli painting
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Obiora and Ada Udechukwu, Wearing Uli designed fabrics
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Obiora Udechukwu, Our Journey, Acrylic on canvas, panels 3, 4, 1993
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Yoruba Ritual Painting
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Epa, Yoruba, Nigeria Wood, pigments 20 th century
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Painting the head of an infant In the ritual of “knowing the inner head”
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Orisa Priestess with painted forehead
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Obatala shrine, Ile Ife, Nigeria
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Orisa Popo Shrine Ogbomoso, Nigeria
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Ritual painting inside a Museum, Osogbo, Nigeria
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Sacred painting on the façade of a shrine in Ayegunle-Ekiti, Nigeria
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Sacred Painting for Ogun, Ilesa, Nigeria
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Oluorogbo shrine painting Ile Ife, Nigeria
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Women writing on the ground at the beginning of the annual painting rituals
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Women painters in front of their work, Ijero Ekiti, Nigeria
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Priestess of Obaluaye Ile Ife, Nigeria
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The painting process, Ile Ife, Nigeria
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Orisaikire Shrine painting, Ile Ife, Nigeria
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Michael Harris, Love Shrine, Mixed media, 1995
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Michael Harris, Soul Chart, Mixed media 1995
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Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Soponna, Yoruba deity of the Poxes Photograph, 1987
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Bolaji Campbell, Re-creation Soil on canvas, 1994/6
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Bolaji Campbell, Ahun, Soil on burlap, 1999
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Bolaji Campbell, Alaamu, Soil on canvas, 1996
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Bolaji Campbell, and the chameleon said…, oil on canvas, 2000
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