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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.

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.

A historical and organological clarification of the five major modern Yorùbá popular and neo-traditional musical genres, tracing their distinct religious roots, instrumental configurations, and social trajectories.