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Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men
and women create objects called aale to protect their properties-farms,
gardens, market goods, piles of collected firewood--from the ravages of
thieves. I low satisfying it would have been to see
unfamiliar ephemera such as a Yoruba aale, imagery of
"un-transportable" Lozi pageantry, a reconstruction of
accumulative arts from a Vodun shrine, or an installation of Shambaa
medicinal accretions (ughanga) in this exhibition on "material
differences. It
focused on aale, Yoruba sculptural constructs made of discarded
utilitarian objects that are intended to protect personal property and
deter thieves (an example is shown on page 10 of A History of Art in
Africa, Visona et al. |
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