The wooden Ọpọ́n Ifá that captured L. Frobenius’ attention during his visit to Ifẹ̀ in circa 1910. Also semi-circular shape (aka. D shape). The shape is indeed intentional, it’s out of fashion today.👇🏾
Archaeological remains of defensive and structural walls from the sites of Old Oyo and Koso (In Oyo and Kwara states respectively).
Oyo ile was a city of walls. It had 10 gates in an oval-shaped concentric wall complex 6.1m high, 24 km in circumference surrounded by a dry ditch.
apparently some beaded ornaments. they wear it with other hairstyles too & it’s one sided. frame-1 shows her left-view, & frame-2 another hairstyle with same beaded-ornaments on right-side only. cheers! 🥂
Finally‼️ A Textual Confirmation (in Latin Script) of the Historical-Linguistics Analysis. Indeed, the people of Abeokuta knew exactly what they were talking about when they said ‘oríọba’ in ca. 1862.
Reference:
Sir F. Lugard, “Map to Illustrate Captain Lugard's Paper on the Borgu Expedition 1894-1895”, 1895
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Tell us in the quotes & replies if you see what I’m taking about. Cheers‼️🥂
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼-𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 “𝗢̀𝗸𝘂̀𝗸𝘂́” & 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳
About 𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬 years ago, Yorùbá women gracefully rocked their beaded 𝘀̣𝘂̀𝗸𝘂́, or 𝗮̄𝗷𝗲̣̄𝗴𝗵𝗲̣̄, also casually called 𝗮̄𝗱𝗲́ (and ?now? called 𝗼̀𝗸𝘂̀𝗸𝘂́ by the Binis).
𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝟭 shows a beaded 𝘀̣𝘂̀𝗸𝘂́ hairstyle or 𝗮̄𝗷𝗲̣̄𝗴𝗵𝗲̣̄, (aka. 𝗼̀𝗸𝘂̀𝗸𝘂́ by the Binis) excavated from Ìwìnrìn-Grove, Ifẹ̀. This terracotta dates to circa 𝟭𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗔𝗗.
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𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝟮 shows two (2) broken fragments of same hairstyle. The fragment above broke off from the 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝟭 terracotta, while the one below is from a different terracotta altogether—but also from Ifẹ̀.
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𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝟯 shows Yoruba lady from Ọ̀wọ̀, ca. 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬𝘀.
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𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝟰 shows Ẹdo lady from Benin, circa 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬𝘀.
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The base-model of this hairstyle (𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 ���𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀), consists of the hair packed-up into a high cone-frustum shaped tuft at the top of the head; and with this (‘cone-frustum’-shaped) tuft encircled/banded by strings of beads — just as is seen in 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝟭, 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝟮, 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝟯, and 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝟰.
The earliest archaeological proof (of any type) for this hairstyle comes from Ifẹ̀, Yorubaland, c.𝟭𝟭𝟬𝟬.
Ẹ bo ko lọ far 😁 Cheers‼️🥂
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