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... Yoruba . By 1970 the total edition of Fagunwa's five novels ran into hundreds of thousands . Fagunwa's novels are loosely constructed adventure tales containing many folklore elements : spirits , mon- sters , transformation flights ...
... Yoruba . By 1970 the total edition of Fagunwa's five novels ran into hundreds of thousands . Fagunwa's novels are loosely constructed adventure tales containing many folklore elements : spirits , mon- sters , transformation flights ...
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... Yoruba . ( The name gugu appears to be derived from the Yoruba egungun ; see below West African cultures : Yoruba ) . The elo mask has a human face with a motif ( sometimes a human figure ) rising above it , flanked with stylized horns ...
... Yoruba . ( The name gugu appears to be derived from the Yoruba egungun ; see below West African cultures : Yoruba ) . The elo mask has a human face with a motif ( sometimes a human figure ) rising above it , flanked with stylized horns ...
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... Yoruba sculptural style . Throughout Yor- ubaland , human figures ( Figure 25 ) represent a funda- mentally naturalistic canon , except for bulging eyes ; flat , protruding , and usually parallel lips ; and stylized ears . The evolution ...
... Yoruba sculptural style . Throughout Yor- ubaland , human figures ( Figure 25 ) represent a funda- mentally naturalistic canon , except for bulging eyes ; flat , protruding , and usually parallel lips ; and stylized ears . The evolution ...
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