INSTALLATION REVIEW

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Notes

¹ Interview with Georges Adéagbo, 20 November 2006. I am grateful to Carlos Basualdo and Emily Hage at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Stephan Kohler for their generous assistance.

²See chapter on ‘The Benin Village’ in R. E. Bradbury's Benin Studies (1973) for more on an eldest son's responsibilities in a traditional Yoruba household. For example, ‘He does succeed to his father's jural status, with jural authority over all his siblings and responsibility to the community for their conduct.... He remains, too, the ultimate protector of his married sisters vis-à-vis their husbands’ families.... It is as his father's ritual successor that the senior son fulfills the role that validates his authority in other matters’ (160).

³See <http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/collection/255.html>

⁴Interview with Adéagbo, 21 November 2006.