Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Blier, Suzanne Preston

Titel

Art in Ancient Ife, Birthplace of the Yoruba

Ist Teil von

• African arts, 2012-12, Vol.45 (4), p.70-85

Ort / Verlag

55 Hayward St., Cambridge, MA 02142-1315, USA: James S. Coleman African Studies Center, UCLA International Institute, University of California, Los Angeles

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Ikedu oral history text addressing Ife's history (an annotated kings list transposed from the early Ife dialect; Akinjogbin n.d.) indicates that it was during the reign of Ife's 46th king - what appears to be two rulers prior to the famous King Obalufon II (listed as Ekenwa in this early king list; Fig. 1) - that this violent civil war broke out. Looking at the complex visual codes of these remarkable objects through details of body form and proportion, gesture, facial marking, material properties, regalia form, animal symbolism, site locations, oral history, mapping and traveler accounts, as well as modern day Ife beliefs and rituals about this center and its arts allows us to see these ancient Ife works as a vital part of the city's early history.