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The genres of Yoruba wood carving, from Ifá trays to palace doors to epa masks, the master carvers and family workshops who made them, and the reason so much of this work sits in museums without an artist's name attached.

Àrẹ̀ògún of Òsi, the Adúgbológun workshop of Abẹ́òkúta, Olówè of Ìṣẹ̀ and the carving lineages, and why so much of their work sits in museums labelled only "Yoruba."

Master sculptor of the Ọ̀pìn workshop tradition whose monumental narrative woodcarvings chronicled northeastern Yoruba political life, ritual institutions, and historical change.

The carving technique, cosmological iconography, aesthetic principles, museum provenance, and historical debates surrounding the consecrated Yoruba divination tray.

The monumental carved headdress tradition of northeastern Yorubaland, detailing its physical construction, workshop masters, ritual performance, museum provenance, and scholarly debates.

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