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Sacred and Secular Painting: Uli and Yoruba Orisa Painting

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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Sacred and Secular Painting:Uli and Yoruba Orisa Painting

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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 shellsPlant juices—indigo, vines, berries and pods

Paint brushes, rags, feathers, pots, calabashes

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Natural Red Pigment for ritual painting

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Paint pot

Painting brushes

feather

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Uli Painting

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Uli design patterns

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Uli decorations

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Uli painting on communal shrine, igbo, Nigeria

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Uli shrine wall at Nri, Igbo, Nigeria

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Uli painting, Igbo, Nigeria

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Uli painting

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Obiora and Ada Udechukwu,Wearing Uli designed fabrics

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

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Yoruba Ritual Painting

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Epa, Yoruba, NigeriaWood, pigments20th century

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Painting the head of an infantIn the ritual of “knowing the inner head”

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Orisa Priestess with painted forehead

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Obatala shrine, Ile Ife, Nigeria

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Orisa Popo ShrineOgbomoso, Nigeria

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Ritual painting inside aMuseum, Osogbo, Nigeria

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

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Sacred Painting for Ogun, Ilesa, Nigeria

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Oluorogbo shrine paintingIle Ife, Nigeria

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

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

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Priestess of ObaluayeIle Ife, Nigeria

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The painting process,Ile Ife, Nigeria

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Orisaikire Shrine painting, Ile Ife, Nigeria

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Michael Harris,Love Shrine,Mixed media, 1995

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Michael Harris,Soul Chart,Mixed media1995

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Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Soponna, Yoruba deity of the PoxesPhotograph, 1987

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Bolaji Campbell,Re-creationSoil on canvas,1994/6

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Bolaji Campbell,Ahun,Soil on burlap,1999

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Bolaji Campbell,Alaamu,Soil on canvas,1996

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