The Aesthetics of Color:

Yoruba Color Aesthetics

These slippers are amazingly intricate. Whoever wears these slippers, probably some priest, is a priest that deals with all the deities because there is "fun fun" here, a lot of white, and some of the icy kind of gray. There is also quite a bit of the "pupa" in the orange; some of the yellow I would almost classify as "pupa" because it has a fiery kind of feeling. There is also "du du" with the dark brown and the green. The beads for the Yoruba people have a really interesting aspect that seems contradictory at first glance. They both conceal and reveal.

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