Why did Europeans think that these were made by a lost Greek colony?
Heads of Ife
Blake Gutierrez
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Nicholas Garcia
Because, perhaps they thought the indigenous population was incapable, seeing how they lived in mud huts...
Ryan Lewis
Did they eat the models for the sculptures in ritual killing after they finished making them?
Hunter Clark
Kevin Stewart
Yorùbá Culture: A Philosophical Account
Kọ́lá Abímbọ́lá - 2014 - Philosophy
The limbless and headless body of a boy (named Adam by police officers) was found in the river Thames near Tower Bridge, London, in September 2001. Because of some items found with the torso, the police suspected that he had been a victim of ritual killing.
Appareantly one of the traditions involves chopping of the head of the ritual victim.
Perhaps the head statutes are based on the chopped off heads of the victims?
Christopher Hughes
It's more likely some gang LARP about their time as KANGZ than any sincere belief in their own folk religions
Henry Rivera
Because it looked more like Greek sculpture than like other known local styles.
Henry Barnes
> than any sincere belief in their own folk religions
If you read about it, they discovered the child was smuggled from Nigeria and these rituals aren't uncommon there.
Carson Harris
And they're generally carried out by university cults that don't really give a fuck about the religious part of it
Grayson Gomez
In what way?
Lucas Lee
These people were kings and queens of the Yoruba
Nathaniel White
Cameron Young
Jonathan Ortiz
Jonathan Phillips
Here is a Greek Bronze, it looks nothing like Ile-Ife Bronze.
Isaiah Price
In what way?
Hudson Morales
his book, Voice of Africa, Frobenius wrote: "Before us stood a head of marvellous beauty, wonderfully cast in antique bronze, true to the life, incrusted with a patina of glorious dark green. This was, in very deed, the Olokun, Atlantic Africa's Poseidon."
"I was moved to silent melancholy at the thought that this assembly of degenerate and feeble-minded posterity should be the legitimate guardians of so much loveliness," he added.
Kayden Sanders
They're brass not bronze
Colton Bailey
Ayden Morris
When the Ife heads first appeared in the Western World in the first half of the twentieth century, many experts compared them to the highest achievements of ancient Roman or Greek art. When Frobenius discovered the first example of a similar head it undermined existing Western understanding of African civilisation. Experts could not believe that Africa had ever had a civilisation capable of creating artefacts of this quality. Attempting to explain what was thought an anomaly, Frobenius offered his theory that these had been cast by a colony of ancient Greeks established in the thirteenth century BC.[10] He made a claim, widely circulated in the popular press, that his hypothesised ancient Greek colony could be the origin of the ancient legend of the lost civilization of Atlantis.[11][12][13]
It is now recognised that these statues represent an indigenous African tradition that attained a high level of realism and refinement
Cooper Taylor
"Bronze", actually brass
Nathaniel Lee
Like most African "bronzes" the piece is actually made of copper and various alloys, described by the British Museum as "heavily leaded zinc-brass".[3] Modern practice in museums and archaeology is increasingly to avoid terms such as bronze or brass for historical objects in favour of the all-embracing "copper alloy".[4] The head is made using the lost wax technique and is approximately three-quarters life-size, measuring 35 cm high. The artist designed the head in a very naturalistic style. The face is covered with incised striations, but the lips are unmarked. The headdress suggests a crown of complex construction, composed of different layers of tube shaped beads and tassels. This decoration is typical of the bronze heads from Ife.[5] The crown is topped by a crest, with a rosette and a plume which now is slightly bent to one side. The crown's surface includes the remains of both red and black paint. The lifelike rendering of sculptures from mediaeval Ife is exceptional in sub-Saharan African art, and initially was considered the earliest manifestation of a tradition that continued in Yoruba art, in early Benin art and other pieces. An excavation in Igbo-Ukwu in 1959 provided scientific evidence of an established metal working culture and bronze artifacts that may be dated to the ninth or tenth centuries.
Leo Ramirez
Oh so brass is also part of bronze work sorry for earlier
David Johnson
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