The Ife Culture and Tradition

WEEK 3

TOPIC: The Ife Culture and Tradition

Ife Figures/Artefacts

The artistic representation of Ife art as manifested in its glass beads, terracotta and bronze heads artefacts makes for a major centre of an advanced civilisation that flourished in the past. Apart from this, there were also objects such as stools and figures carved on hard stone. The culture also has animals and human figures carved from granite and decorated with iron nails. Most of the bronze and terracotta heads were said to be life-size, decorated with facial marks and natural hair.

Ife's art tradition has some similarities with the Nok culture and is either in terracotta or in bronze. They are done in naturalistic and idealised styles. Some of…