By: Odewole Funmilayo DorcasTHE ancient city of Ile-Ife, Nigeria is known for its culture, traditions and art. The city was founded around 500 BC by the Yoruba people, a kwa speaking group from ...

On November 14, 2007, the Belgian authorities held an auction of confiscated art items. Among the lots was the Ife head. It was bought by a local antique dealer, for the princely sum of 200 Euros ...

Compilation of mimeographed seminar papers from the Institute of African Studies, University of Ife, 1972-1975, and the 20th Annual Congress of the Historical Society of Nigeria, Dec. 18-21, 1974.

The Best of Ife, an annual arts exhibition will open its 31st edition themed Women of Ife July 19 to 26 at the John Randle ...

July 8-Jan. 16 Indianapolis Museum of Art With work dating from the ninth to the 15th century, this traveling show has been designed to reveal the depth of artistic achievement in the city-state ...

A show about the kingdom of Ife, which flourished in what is now Nigeria from the 12th to 15th centuries, underlines why sculptures found last century forced the West to revise its attitudes ...

The splendor of ancient Ife : art in an early West African state Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Object Details Author Drewal, Henry John Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI Notes ...

In 1938, construction workers unearth a priceless collection of cast metal portrait heads that stun the world. In 1961, laborers burying a fuel tank at a gas station discover a ...