The Yoruba of West Africa (Benin, Nigeria and Togo) are responsible for a distinct artistic tradition in Africa, a tradition that remains vital and influential today. [1] Much of the art of the Yoruba, including staffs, court dress, and beadwork for crowns, is associated with the royal courts.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yorùbá Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 90, mostly 20th century traditional objects such as figures, masks, headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels and shrine furniture.

Yoruba art, originating from the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria and parts of Benin and Togo, represents one of Africa’s most sophisticated and influential artistic traditions. Dating back several centuries, this rich artistic heritage encompasses various forms including sculpture, metalwork, textiles, beadwork, and architectural elements.

YORUBA ART AND CULTURE 9 The Yoruba people live on the west coast of Africa in Nigeria and can also be found in the eastern Republic of Benin and Togo. Because the majority of the slaves brought to the Americas were from West Africa Yoruban descendants can also be found in Brazil, Cuba, the Caribbean, and the United States.

African art - Yoruba: The Yoruba, more than 20 million, occupy southwestern Nigeria and the central and southeastern region of Benin under the name Nago. They are patrilineal and practice excision and circumcision. Yoruba society is highly organized and …

STUDYING YORUBA ART | Fired brilliance. This extraordinary ceramic figure, originally paired with a female counterpart (now in the collection of the Berg en Dal Museum, The Netherlands), was once the centerpiece in a meeting lodge of Òṣùgbó (or Ògbóni) society elders.

Yoruba Gallery collects, curates, and exhibits African contemporary Art. We provide a platform for emerging African artists as well as art by some of the biggest names in the African art world.

The Yoruba, found mainly in Nigeria, Benin and Togo number over 25 million people, with the vast majority of those people living in southwestern Nigeria. The Yoruba people are rich in traditions and have two different versions of their origins, those being mythological and historical.

Concentrated in southwestern Nigeria, the Yoruba are one of the largest ethno-linguistic groups in the nation, with smaller populations in modern-day Benin and Togo. The collection includes examples of indigo-dyed adire textiles and intricate beadwork of Yoruba craft tradition.

The Yoruba of West Africa (Benin, Nigeria and Togo, with migrant communities in parts of Ghana and Sierra Leone) are responsible for one of the finest artistic traditions in Africa, a tradition that remains vital and influential today.