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| Statue Of Ori Olokun In Brazil by Lushore1: 10:53pm On May 26, 2015 |
The monument was erected in 1986, near Praça Onze (Plaza Eleven), commissioned as part of a celebration of negritude under the administration of Governor Leonel Brizola. The head is 3 meters tall and is cast from 800 kilos of bronze. As no one knows for sure exactly what Zumbi looked like, the head was modelled after the famous Ife Head from Nigeria, still held captive in the British Museum. The monument is located on Avenida Presidente Vargas, a main thoroughfare in the city.
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| Re: Statue Of Ori Olokun In Brazil by hakeem4(m): 5:53am On May 27, 2015 |
Nice 1 Like |
| Re: Statue Of Ori Olokun In Brazil by Yujin(m): 8:10am On May 27, 2015 |
Hmmm. Nice one. African statues dotting different continents is a welcome development. Our stories would begin to become a subject of interest. 1 Like |
| Re: Statue Of Ori Olokun In Brazil by Lushore1: 1:09pm On May 27, 2015 |
A History of the World in 100 Objects Watch "The Bronze Head from Ife DOCUMENTARY" on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZWQfj2-HNs A History of the World in 100 Objects 63. Ife head Head of an Oni, one of the rulers of Ife in Nigeria, one of medieval Africa’s most powerful and wealthy kingdoms. Listen to this programme on the BBC This head probably depicts an Ooni, a ruler of the West African kingdom of Ife that flourished between AD 1100 and 1500. The portrait-like realism of Ife heads is unique in African art. This naturalism astonished art historians when the first Ife heads were brought to Europe in 1911. One German explorer even proposed they were made by Greek settlers in Africa - the origins of Plato's Atlantis myth. Eighteen heads have been found in total, and their stylistic similarities suggest that they were made by an individual artist or in a single workshop. What was life like in medieval Africa? The kingdom of Ife first emerged around AD 800. It was one of several competing West African kingdoms that developed during the medieval period. Ife's power and wealth was probably partly derived from its access to the lucrative Niger River trade routes, connecting it to the wider trade networks of West Africa and the Sahara. Today Ife is regarded as the spiritual heartland of the Yoruba people of southwest Nigeria. Ife is celebrated as the place of origin of mankind, where the gods descended from heaven to populate the world. http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/a_history_of_the_world/objects.aspx?byCulture#63
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Olokun festival in brazil 1 Like
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