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African Arts, Spring, 2008 by T.J.H. Chappel
I write in connection with the preview article (vol. 39, no. 4, PP. 14-35) published in a recent issue of African Arts concerning the new exhibition at the Fowler Museum.
With regard to Fig. 19 (p. 24), the attribution may require a little fine tuning. The identification of "Adubologe" as the carver has caused confusion in the past, and continues to do so. "Adubologe" was the nickname of a particular individual in lineage icon, Ojerinde, who established the workshop at Abeokuta that bears his attributive name. He died just before the outbreak of WWI. Confusion occurs when the nickname of the individual and the workshop named after him are not clearly delineated. Even members of the workshop tend to use "Adubologe" as a blanket attribution: sometimes they do mean Ojerinde himself, but more often than not the intention is to establish that the piece in question is, indeed, a product of the workshop.
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The headdress in the collection can, with a high degree of certainty, be attributed on stylistic ground to the Adugbologe workshop. However, in my view, the most likely individual candidate for the authorship of the piece is Ojerinde's son, Oniyide, much of whose own work tends to be loosely attributed to "Adugbologe," invariably misinterpreted as his father, Ojerinde. Oniyide died in the late 1940s.
I hope that this helps to clarify the entry in your museum's register and, more important, perhaps, to ensure that Oniyide begins to receive some the credit which is undoubtedly his due!
T.J.H. Chappel
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