Olowe of Ise, Veranda Post, before 1938 (Yoruba people, Nigeria), wood, pigment, 180.3 x 28.6 x 35.6 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Speakers: Dr. Peri Klemm and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Thanks so much for this work on Yoruba and Mexican/Mesoamerican art recently. It's a great complement to more traditional focuses on Western European art!
Gabriel Amador Thanks for the kind words. We hope to be adding more art from Mexico (pre and post contact), Africa, Asia, Native North American and the Pacific Islands soon - as well as more European art. Better get back to work, its a big world.
I wonder where they took these from. If the people of Yoruba want them back, these people really should return them to where they belong right away. Western museums holding art from other cultures usually taken from war or colonization , I dont know if it is a way to honor the art, or to disrespect the art and making the museum as a zoo of art pieces taken out of its natural habitat.
Per Ancestry, the majority of my DNA is Nigerian, so I'm automatically intrigued about what my people have been up to. 😅 Dr. Zucker: "And one of the ways that we know her power is spiritual.." Me: "She's carrying a dude and his horse on her head? 😂" Dr. Zucker: "She's naked and it represents fertility." Me: "My second guess, for sure." The Gelede (with lots of accent marks) mask is pure magic. What a vision that was. I'd definitely walk around this object and appreciate its details.
Possibly an evolution of the engraved pillars seen in Egypt? Egypt's pillars were usually engraved with art telling different stories. This seems to be a 3d evolution of that. I don't know, just guessing. Proudly Yoruba!
no...most cultures have such art which convey stories or meaning. the engraved Egyptian arts were strictly hieroglyphs; this Yoruba art which is fairly recent developed independent of Egypt's art (BC which is basically bronze age stuff)
@@ayotundeayoko5861 My father is a Yoruba descendant from Cuba. His DNA with 23& Me revealed he is a direct descendant of the Pharoah Ramsees III. This was on his father's side and his Y marker was E1B1A like Ramsees III which is Central African. The Yoruba's origin story is that many high priests and others came to Nigeria, from the Nile Valley over a thousand years ago, fleeing foreign invaders. Thes foreigners were diluting the religion. At that period the Nok people were present in Nigeria. They became the Yoruba. I am a descendant of these people and in Cuba we still practice the ancient religion. Much of the religion and culture is very similar to ancient Egyptian cosmology. My father's Pharonic DNA bares this out.
@@lf1496 Nok were Iron age civilization in Northern/Central Nigeria - NOT exclusively Yorubas. I'll also ask some very simple questions. 1. The priests of the ancient world were mostly literate yes? 2. How come these priests didn't bring their writing scripts to Yorubaland? if they did please show evidence of these. 3. How many Yorubas do you know can read hieroglyphs? can anyone in your family understand these? 4. Please tell me which words in Yoruba are etymologically from Ancient Egypt, or even Nilo-Cushitic (not loan words please)
If this were a European sculpture we would have been hearing about the role of women, misogyny, and all sorts of overblown gender nonsense. But, because this is African art, the woman here is in 'a supportive role'. lmao
