Figure for Shango (Xango) Thundergod of the Nago (Yoruba) Blacks

Photographer

Drewal, Henry John

Date

• 1974

Summary

• Ritual sculpture of a female devotee of Shango (Xango) in the collection of the Mus. National, Rio de Janeiro. The kneeling figure gestures to her breasts and is crowned by Shango's icon, the double-bladed axe.