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Works Cited:

(1) Ben-Amos, Paula ed., and Arnold Rubin ed.  The Art of Power, The Power of Art: Studies in Benin
           Iconography. Regents of the University of California, 1983.

(2) Blier, Susan Preston.  The Royal Arts of Africa: The Majesty of Form.  Hong Cong: Prentice Hall,
           Inc., 1998.

(3) Drewal, Henry John, and Margaret Thompson Drewal.  Gẹlẹdẹ: Art and Female Power among the
           Yoruba. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.

(4) Drewal, Margaret Thompson.  Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency.  Bloomington and
           Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992.

(5) Kaplan, Flora S.  Queens, Queen Mothers, Priestesses, and Power: Case Studies in African
           Gender.  New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1997.

Pictures:

http://dickinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu/diaspora/religion_photos.html

http://www.e-village.jp/opc/03evc/03culture01/32/

http://iga.igg.cnr.it/img/africa.gif

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/oracle/figure16L.html

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pwmn/hob_1978.412.302.htm

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pwmn/hob_1979.206.218.htm

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/08/sfg/ho_1978.412.323.htm

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/09/sfg/ho_1977.187.36.htm

http://www.randafricanart.com/Benin_bronze_hip_masks.html

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/