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Ilé-Ifẹ̀ between roughly the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, its sculpture in copper alloy and terracotta, the industries that paid for it, and its relationships with Benin, Ọ̀wọ̀ and the Niger.

The copper-alloy and terracotta sculpture of medieval Ilé-Ifẹ̀, how it was made, what it was probably for, the century of European refusal to credit Africans with making it, and where the objects are now.

Ọbalúfọ̀n II Aláyẹmore, the Ifẹ̀ ruler credited with the introduction of brass casting and worshipped as patron of casters and weavers, and the copper mask that carries his name on an attribution made by a king in 1937.

A historical account of Efọ̀n-Aláayé, detailing its aboriginal settlements, dynastic emergence from Ilé-Ifẹ̀, governance architecture, nineteenth-century warfare, religious shifts, and contemporary administrative status.

The historical narrative, ritual memorialization, scholarly debates, and cultural legacy surrounding Queen Mọ̀remí of ancient Ilé-Ifẹ̀.

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.