TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
I. HISTORY
A. Ancient Ife and the Myths of Yoruba Origin
B. Nineteenth-Century Ife
C. Twentieth-Century Ife
I. RELIGION
A. Ife as the Religious Centre of the Yoruba
B. Festivals
C. Cults and Shrines
I. ART.
A. Naturalism in Ife Art
1.Origins and Age
2. Form and Content
3. Techniques and Materials
B. Ife and Other Artistic Traditions
- Ife and Nok
- Benin and Owo
Ife, Jebba/Tada and Jukun
C. Frobenius and Ile-Ife
D. Stone Carvings and Monuments
E. Others art Forms at Ife
1. Akori (Aggrey) Beads
2. *Ogboni Staves
3 Ritual Stools
IV. ARCHAEOLOGY
A. Excavations at Ife
B. Town Walls, Potsherd Pavements and the Maize Impression Controversy
C. Radiocarbon Dating at Ife
V. SOCIOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHY
VI. MISCELLANY
INDEX






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