MIRROR BOX (WEDDING GIFT)
[1-3,5]: MIRROR BOX (WEDDING GIFT)
[4]: A Yoruba couple on their wedding day in 1940From: Yoruba culture, Nigeria 🇳🇬Source [1-3,5]: @amyasnaegele
Source [4]: @nigerianostalgia (nigerianostalgia.tumblr.com)
Source notes [1-3,5]: “This Yoruba mirror box was likely a wedding gift circa 1920s-1930s, depicting charming figures wearing colonial era, Western-influenced attire with classic Yoruba eyes. The woman has a scarification mark in the middle of her forehead. 10 in [high]”
Source notes [4]: “Mr & Mrs John Oke Agbede. 1st white wedding in Igede Ekiti. Western Region of Nigeria. January 11, 1940”
Observations: synthesis without compromise (carved figurine in abstracted style with one having traditional scarification while also in European dress), storytelling, continuation of a design language, intuitive form, embedded utility with in-built hinges, repairability (replacable door and mirror)
