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Provenance
Ms Kathleen A Player.
Kathleen Player worked in Nigeria as Woman Education Officer at King's College, Lagos and then was the founder of Queen Elizabeth School, Ilorin where she served as principal from 1954-1962.
The inscription 'Onileku' refers to the village of that name in Oyo State, not far from the artist's birth town of Ipele, both in the heart of Yorubaland.