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Guide to the twenty files in the visual arts, material culture, and organology section, examining Ife antiquity, sacred carving, masquerade arts, textiles, architecture, and musical speech surrogacy.
A comprehensive scholarly study of the cast copper-alloy sculptures of ancient Ilé-Ifẹ̀, detailing their lost-wax metallurgical technique, dating, workshop attributions, functional debates, and collection histories.
A comprehensive scholarly survey of classical Ifẹ̀ terracotta sculptures, detailing their ceramic technology, archaeological contexts, stylistic duality, ritual interpretations, and museum provenance histories.
The carving technique, cosmological iconography, aesthetic principles, museum provenance, and historical debates surrounding the consecrated Yoruba divination tray.
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.
Paired brass casting staffs of the Yoruba Ògbóni society, examining lost-wax metallurgy, gendered iconology, institutional judicial authority, and collection provenance.
The sacred conical beaded crown of the Yoruba monarch, examining its physical construction, metaphysical architecture, constitutional status, and museum provenance.
Architectural and sculptural analysis of Yorùbá palace veranda posts, detailing monoxylous carving techniques, named master sculptors, indigenous aesthetic frameworks, and collection histories.
A comprehensive scholarly reference on adìrẹ eléko, the Yorùbá cassava-starch resist dyeing technique, covering its materials, chemistry, named master patterns, historical development, documented artists, museum collections, and archival debates.
Technical processes, material substrates, gender dynamics, and museum histories of Yoruba raffia-tied and needle-stitched indigo resist textiles.
A comprehensive scholarly analysis of Yoruba narrow-strip aṣọ òkè weaving, examining loom technology, raw materials, classic typologies, historical production centers, museum provenance, and academic debates on origin, innovation, and restitution.
The botanical, chemical, and socioeconomic structures of traditional Yoruba indigo fermentation dyeing, resist techniques, and guild organization.
An organological, linguistic, and historical analysis of the Yorùbá dùndún hourglass tension drum, its direct acoustic speech surrogacy, ensemble hierarchy, hereditary Àyàn drumming lineages, and institutional museum presence.
The organology, ensemble hierarchy, speech surrogacy, and sacred history of the Yorùbá bàtá drum across West African and transatlantic contexts.
An examination of Yoruba ceramic traditions, detailing technical processes, female potting lineages, ritual and domestic vessel typologies, documented master artists, archaeological chronologies, and debates surrounding provenance and restitution.
An archaeometallurgical and art-historical analysis of Yorùbá iron smelting, blacksmithing technologies, sacred regalia for Ògún and Ọ̀sanyìn, and museum provenance debates.
Archaeological, chemical, and historical evidence for primary glass manufacture and drawn bead production at Ilé-Ifẹ̀ between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries CE.
A scholarly analysis of classical Yorùbá architecture, examining courtyard compounds, palace complexes, structural carving techniques, archaeological chronologies, and museum restitution debates.
A comprehensive study of Yoruba Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ headdresses, examining their sculptural techniques, ritual appeasement of female spiritual power, named carving lineages, and museum provenance histories.
Construction methods, material stratigraphy, lineage ownership, and museum provenance debates surrounding Yoruba ancestral masquerade regalia.