#yoruba

[oswald-can-draw]

@rabbitkinglune777 Best of luck with your ancestral journey!

[isaacmournidino]

Harmonia Rosales - Birth of Oshun (2017)

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[orishaarchive]

Playing with colors

Ọbà, Ọya & Ọ̀ṣun

Oba is the Orisha of marriage, domestic life, loyalty, and sacrifice.

Oya is the Orisha of Winds, storms, transformation, death/rebirth.

Oshun is the Orisha of Love, Beauty, Prosperity, and Fresh Waters

The heads in Yoruba art are often disproportionately large. This intentional distortion is a fundamental characteristic of the artwork and is based on philosophical and spiritual beliefs. The Yoruba believe that the head, or orí, is the most vital part of a person, containing their inner essence, destiny, and life force. So i thought it might be fun to make the heads of my silly designs larger to reflect this!

[lionofchaeronea]

Mask (copper alloy; 26.7 cm [10.5 in] high x 18.4 cm [7.2 in] wide x 14.0 cm [5.5 in] deep) of a bearded man with cap, made by the Yoruba artist Ali Amonikoyi ca. 1910. Born in Nigeria, Amonikoyi later emigrated and was active in present-day Ghana and Togo. He was a master metalworker who developed a technique for imitating Yoruba gelede masks, normally made of wood, in metal. The resulting masks were not used in dance performances, as was typical for their wooden cousins, but rather placed on graves as memorials.

This mask, believed to have been made at Kete Krachi in the Volta region of Ghana, is now in the Arts of Africa Collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York City, NY, USA. Photo credit: Brooklyn Museum | Wikimedia Commons | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

[jeneka]

[brownskincheyenne]

This pout gets her everything I just know it !! Wunmi Mosaku in W mag !!! Face card eating everytime !! 😍😍😍

[vintage-tigre]