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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."

A comprehensive historical account of Ìkẹ́rẹ́-Èkìtì, examining its dual dynastic origins, civil and sacerdotal institutions, palace architecture, colonial administrative shifts, and contemporary status.

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

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.

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