Black gods and kings: Yoruba art at UCLA

Acknowledgments

Preface
The Setting:

1. Yorubaland

The Imagination:

2. Myths

3. Aesthetics
The Sacred Forms:

4. Trickster
5. Fate
6. Earth and Execution
7. Title Staffs of Iron and Brass
8. Bead-Embroidered Crowns, Sceptres, Panels

9. Crowns of Cowries, Indigo and Wood

10. Staffs of Iron
11. Birds of Iron
12. Dance Wands
13. Twin Statuettes
14. Masks of the Witches
15. Headdresses of the Dead
16. Statuary for the God of Creativity The Secular Reflections

17. Genre and the Queen Victorias
18. Textiles
19. Domestic Objects and Architectural Sculpt Lire 20. Envoi
Appendix:

X-ray Fluorescence Analysis: Brass and Iron Artifacts

Bibliography Maps