Sentences with phrase «yoruba beadwork»

Carol Thompson, curator of African art at the High Museum, surmises that Dinka corsets and Yoruba beadwork (examples of which you can see at the High), which would have been illustrated in «Africa Adorned,» were influences, as well as engungun masquerade costumes.

Coming up in May is an exhibition of Yoruba beadwork from Nigeria that includes crowns, coronets, sheaths and a 19th - century royal tunic.