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On the Identification of Individual Carvers: A Study of Ancestor Shrine Carvings from Owo, Nigeria

It has been stressed frequently enough by William Fagg (e.g. I956; I963: I I9-22) that African sculpture, particularly that of the Yoruba, can be studied in terms of individual artists whose identity can be discovered by patient enquiry in the field. Probably the most useful account of individual Yoruba carvers yet published is 'Three generations of Yoruba carvers' by Father Kevin Carroll (I96I). Two of his carvers are still alive and working and the other died only twelve years ago and was known personally to Father Carroll: the identification of individual carvers who died a generation or mo…