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The courtyard compound and its rain-catching impluvium, the palace as the same building at maximum scale, the town laid out around palace and market, the Afro-Brazilian houses of Lagos, and how little of it is still standing.

Life, stylistic innovations, royal patronage, and documented corpus of Olówè of Ìsẹ̀, the twentieth-century Yoruba court sculptor who transformed architectural woodcarving.

Architectural and sculptural analysis of Yorùbá palace veranda posts, detailing monoxylous carving techniques, named master sculptors, indigenous aesthetic frameworks, and collection histories.

A scholarly analysis of classical Yorùbá architecture, examining courtyard compounds, palace complexes, structural carving techniques, archaeological chronologies, and museum restitution debates.

A comprehensive guide to the six files covering Yoruba metallurgy, glassmaking, textile technology, architecture, agriculture, and vigesimal mathematics.

An examination of traditional Yoruba architectural systems, covering coursed mud wall engineering, the inward-draining impluvium courtyard, and monumental earthworks such as Sungbo's Eredo.