Ife (Yoruba Bronze Heads)
Religious and royal centre of the Yoruba people in south-western Nigeria, where eighteen life-size cast-metal heads of extraordinary naturalism were unearthed by accident in 1938 - a sculptural tradition unique in the ancient world for representing human faces this realistically.
Dated events and their evidence
- 1200 CE mainstream
classical Ife art tradition flourishes source - 1938 CE mainstream
bronze heads discovered at Wunmonije Compound source
Where
7.4828° N, 4.5597° E
Sources
- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/nigerian-treasures-ife-heads-bronze
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ife_National_Museum
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