Yoruba art

Yoruba art is an art by humans. It belongs to the study of art of sculpture, textile art and architecture. It is recorded from 1300.

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Literature

6 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Review of: Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara, Manipulating the Sacred: Yorùbá Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomblé. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005, Journal of Art Historiography, 2011. Yoruba Epistemology, Art, Language and the Universe of Meanings: A Meta-Analysis, Yoruba Studies Review, 2021. On the Imperative of Language for Understanding African Art, Yoruba Studies Review, 2021. Practice as research as a decolonial praxis: Yoruba culture retrieval, Frontiers in Sociology, 2026. A Semiotic Analysis of Orin Ọ̀tẹ̀: Yorùbá Performance Art in Song-Lashing, Yoruba Studies Review, 2026. The Landbound Chicken and the Deliberate Chameleon yet have their Uses: Yorùbá Art History, Language, and Interpretation., Yoruba Studies Review, 2021.

Digitised editions and texts

2 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by DataCite (Journal of Education, Communication, and Digital Humanities) and DataCite (Unpublished).

Art, Society and Development in the Yoruba Southwest, Nigeria: A Postcolonial Cultural Analysis (2025) — DataCite (Journal of Education, Communication, and Digital Humanities). YORUBA VOCAL ART MUSIC OF SEUN OWOAJE IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (2023) — DataCite (Unpublished).

Evidence base

This article draws on 3 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 3 means 3 genuinely separate publishers of record. 10 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Further recorded particulars

Authority records. The identifiers under which Yoruba art may be traced in institutional catalogues.

Yoruba art is established in the international name authorities as Wikidata Q8055874.

Scholarly footprint. Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 21 deposited research records (DataCite Commons). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Chronology

  1. 1300Yoruba art first recorded.
  2. 1300Yoruba art is recorded from 1300.
  3. 2023YORUBA VOCAL ART MUSIC OF SEUN OWOAJE IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT digitised by DataCite (Unpublished).
  4. 2025Art, Society and Development in the Yoruba Southwest, Nigeria: A Postcolonial Cultural Analysis digitised by DataCite (Journal of Education, Communication, and Digital Humanities).

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    DataCite Commons, deposited research records naming “Yoruba art”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 12 articles naming Yoruba art.

    open access index · Unverified

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  3. 3.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 3 works naming Yoruba art.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  4. 4.

    “Yoruba art”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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  5. 5.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q8055874: Yoruba art

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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