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Assemblage and Adornment: African Dress from the Collection highlights a small selection of the African textiles and garments from the Saint Louis Art Museum’s permanent collection. Several of the pieces in the exhibition were acquired recently, while others have been part of the Museum’s collection for as many as 50 years. Newly acquired costumes of the Yoruba Egungun masking society in Nigeria, which will form an important part of the permanent African collection, are among the most notable and impressive pieces in the exhibition. Displayed on mannequins. these elaborately decorated costumes offer a lifelike sense of how such garments are used and viewed in Africa.
In addition to the African masquerade costumes, the exhibition displays other Yoruba textiles, such as a shawl worn by the priest of the Yoruba god Shango. Other items on display include beadwork from Cameroon and South Africa, and raffia cloth from the Kuba people of Zaire. Assemblage and Adornment: African Dress from the Collection is on display through August 11 in Gallery 100 at the Art Museum.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, May 1991.
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