The bead goes on...

Having given us a gloriously beaded past, Yoruba bead artists (and their descendants in the Americas) are now taking us into the next millennium with works that transcend not only the shapes, images, colors, and purposes of the past, but also the boundaries of a primarily Yoruba cultural universe to give us works that are rooted in ancient images and ideas, and, at the same time, are transcultural, transnational, pan-African, and universalistic in intention...
 
 

 
  Hunter's Crown  Manuel Vega                   Opa Itele for Obatala and Crown  Jose Rodriguez
 
  Memory  Olabayo Olaniyi                                                       The Royal Clown  Olabayo Olaniyi
 
 

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