₦airaland Forum

ramalot:
Honestly, I sound much more stup!d.

What is wrong in someone trying to get general opinion on the said topic?

The more I visit this site, the more I piss me off.

lakal:
https://www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/d40700/d4070055r.jpg

The unusual carving discussed here is of a bearded rider holding the reins in his left hand. He is wearing a short-sleeved tunic and breeches, his coiffure dressed as a long, interlaced pigtail falling to the horse's rump, with white painted eyes, and a sheathed broadsword at the left hip. The horse has a halter carved as rectangular-link chain, its legs clustered on the small, pierced, rectangular base, and painted spots on the saddle cloth.

This figure takes the form of an Oyo-Yoruba cavalryman of the highest military grade. It may indeed be a representation of the alafin (king) of Oyo's commander-in-chief ("the esho of the eshos", of whom the Yoruba Samuel Johnson wrote a century ago in his The History of the Yorubas (C.M.S., Lagos, 1921; reprinted 1937). This supremo's office was created about the end of the seventeenth century when the might of Oyo was growing and winning the city prominence in the Atlantic trade.

tpia5:
We really need to find out more about the artists who made the ancient ife sculptures.

Pity the tradition folded up.

aljharem3:
https://www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/d40700/d4070055r.jpg

A SUPERB YORUBA HORSE AND RIDER

Vecto:
If Jesus was good then the question makes no sense

bigeagleeye:
Thank God you are still alive to read ds..