Examples of yoruba in the following topics:
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- Over the years, many Yoruba artists have come to merge foreign ideas of artistry and contemporary art with the traditional art forms found in West Africa.
- Much work made within the transAfrican style borrows heavily from Yoruba traditions.
- The work is filled with Yoruba and traditional African references, including the Yoruba Sango dance wand in the right hand of the man, references to deified ancestors (a Yoruba belief), the name Esu (the Yoruba god of fate), and others.
- Europeans in Africa; wood, paint; Yoruba people, West Nigeria; 1st half of 20th century.
- Identify the traditional Yoruba references found in contemporary transAfrican style art.
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- Ilé-Ifè, an ancient Yoruba city in Nigeria, is known worldwide for its naturalistic bronze, stone and terracotta sculptures.
- Ile-Ife is an ancient Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria, located in Osun State.
- The Yoruba are one of the largest ethnic groups in Sub-Saharan Africa, constituting close to 40 million people found predominantly in Nigeria.
- The meaning of the word "ife" in Yoruba is "expansion. " "Ile-Ife," or "the land of expansion," references the origin myth of the Yoruba people.
- The city is commonly regarded by those that follow Yoruba faith as the cradle of not just the Yoruba culture, but of all humanity.
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- The Yoruba and Benin cultures produced sculptures most notably in bronze and ivory in modern Nigeria from the thirteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
- Ife is the home to the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria, located in the present day Osun State.
- Some evidence suggests the Nok culture (1000 BCE–500 CE) eventually evolved into the Yoruba people of Ife.
- The meaning of the word "ife" in Yoruba is "expansion."
- Hollow-cast bronze art created by the Yoruba culture provides an example of realism in precolonial African art.
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- This preference can be seen in the Yoruba portrait bronzes of Ile-Ife, which include indented and incised details that might represent ritual scarification.
- Saltcellar
by an Edo or Yoruba artist representing a Portuguese man, decorated
with horses among geometric patterns.
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- Other kingdoms were ruled by kings or priest kings: for example the Yoruba city-state of Ife established its government under a priestly oba ("king") called the Ooni of Ife.
- For example, the Yoruba people in present-day Nigeria depicted important leaders in their community as sculptures with large heads because the artists believed that the Ase, or inner power of a person, was held in the head.
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- Based on similarities seen in artwork, it has been suggested that the Nok culture evolved into the later Yoruba culture of Ife.
- One such example can be seen in a Nok sculpture of a woman, which bears a striking resemblance to an early twentieth-century sculpture of a king and queen mother by the Yoruba artist Olowe of Ise.
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- These included small family groups of hunter-gatherers, such as the San people of southern Africa; larger, more structured groups, such as the family clan groupings of the Bantu-speaking people of central and southern Africa; heavily structured clan groups in the Horn of Africa; the large Sahelian kingdoms; autonomous city-states and kingdoms such as those of the Akan; Edo people, Yoruba and Igbo people (also misspelled as Ibo) in West Africa; and the Swahili coastal trading towns of East Africa.
- The Ife, historically the first of the Yoruba city-states or kingdoms, established government under a priestly oba ('king' or 'ruler').
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- Post-classical polytheistic religions include Norse Æsir and Vanir, the Yoruba Orisha, the Aztec gods, and many others.
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- Animal sacrifice has turned up in almost all cultures, from the Hebrews to the Greeks and Romans (particularly the purifying ceremony Lustratio), the Ancient Egyptians (for example in the cult of Apis), the Aztecs, and the Yoruba.
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- Together with other cultural groups from the Fon homeland region such as the Yoruba and Bantu, Fon culture merged with French, Portuguese or Spanish to produce distinct religions (Voodoo, Mami Wata, Candomblé and Santería), dance and musical styles (Arará, Yan Valu).