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Yoruba twins, the highest twinning rate in the world, the ere ibeji figure carved when a twin dies, and the reversal from infanticide to veneration.
The carved figures made when a Yoruba twin dies, what the family does with them, the genuinely exceptional twinning rate that produced them, and how tens of thousands of them ended up in Western collections.
The primordial Yoruba deity of ethical purity, creation, and coolness, tasked with sculpting human forms from clay before the breath of life is bestowed.
Life, stylistic innovations, royal patronage, and documented corpus of Olówè of Ìsẹ̀, the twentieth-century Yoruba court sculptor who transformed architectural woodcarving.
Master sculptor of the Ọ̀pìn workshop tradition whose monumental narrative woodcarvings chronicled northeastern Yoruba political life, ritual institutions, and historical change.
A comprehensive scholarly survey of classical Ifẹ̀ terracotta sculptures, detailing their ceramic technology, archaeological contexts, stylistic duality, ritual interpretations, and museum provenance histories.
A comprehensive scholarly analysis of Yoruba twin memorial figures, their theological functions, carving techniques, stylistic regionalisms, museum histories, and contemporary restitution debates.
The monumental carved headdress tradition of northeastern Yorubaland, detailing its physical construction, workshop masters, ritual performance, museum provenance, and scholarly debates.