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Sacred and Secular Painting: Uli and Yoruba Orisa Painting

Sacred and Secular Painting: Uli and Yoruba Orisa Painting. 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

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Sacred and Secular Painting: Uli and Yoruba Orisa Painting

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  1. Sacred and Secular Painting: Uli and Yoruba Orisa Painting

  2. 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

  3. Natural Red Pigment for ritual painting

  4. Paint pot feather Painting brushes

  5. Uli Painting

  6. Uli design patterns

  7. Uli decorations

  8. Uli painting on communal shrine, igbo, Nigeria

  9. Uli shrine wall at Nri, Igbo, Nigeria

  10. Uli painting, Igbo, Nigeria

  11. Uli painting

  12. Obiora and Ada Udechukwu, Wearing Uli designed fabrics

  13. Obiora Udechukwu, Our Journey, Acrylic on canvas, panels 3, 4, 1993

  14. Yoruba Ritual Painting

  15. Epa, Yoruba, Nigeria Wood, pigments 20th century

  16. Painting the head of an infant In the ritual of “knowing the inner head”

  17. Orisa Priestess with painted forehead

  18. Obatala shrine, Ile Ife, Nigeria

  19. Orisa Popo Shrine Ogbomoso, Nigeria

  20. Ritual painting inside a Museum, Osogbo, Nigeria

  21. Sacred painting on the façade of a shrine in Ayegunle-Ekiti, Nigeria

  22. Sacred Painting for Ogun, Ilesa, Nigeria

  23. Oluorogbo shrine painting Ile Ife, Nigeria

  24. Women writing on the ground at the beginning of the annual painting rituals

  25. Women painters in front of their work, Ijero Ekiti, Nigeria

  26. Priestess of Obaluaye Ile Ife, Nigeria

  27. The painting process, Ile Ife, Nigeria

  28. Orisaikire Shrine painting, Ile Ife, Nigeria

  29. Michael Harris, Love Shrine, Mixed media, 1995

  30. Michael Harris, Soul Chart, Mixed media 1995

  31. Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Soponna, Yoruba deity of the Poxes Photograph, 1987

  32. Bolaji Campbell, Re-creation Soil on canvas, 1994/6

  33. Bolaji Campbell, Ahun, Soil on burlap, 1999

  34. Bolaji Campbell, Alaamu, Soil on canvas, 1996

  35. Bolaji Campbell, and the chameleon said…, oil on canvas, 2000

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