Iyoba of Benin information

The Iyoba of Benin is an important female titleholder in the chieftaincy system of the Kingdom of Benin, a Nigerian traditional state. She is otherwise...

Town Flag of the Kingdom of Benin History of Nigeria Iyoba of Benin Oba of Benin Walls of Benin Ben-Amos, Paula Girshick (1995). The Art of Benin Revised...

AD) Erediauwa (1979–2016) Ewuare II (2016 – present) Iyoba of Benin Ogiso Akenzua II "The Benin Kingdom | Pre-Colonial Political Systems". Nigerian Scholars...

1400–1600 A.D. | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art "The Untold Tale between Oba Esigie and Iyoba Idia of Benin". The Guardian Nigeria...

The Benin ivory mask is a miniature sculptural portrait in ivory of Idia, the first Iyoba (Queen Mother) of the 16th century Benin Empire, taking the form...

traditional grounds of the Edaiken N'Uselu (Duke of Uselu) palace as well as the palace of the Iyoba of Benin. When King Ozolua died in the fifteenth century...

honour the Iyoba of Benin (the queen mother). Art in the Kingdom of Benin took many forms, of which bronze and brass reliefs and the heads of kings and...

Benin art is the art from the Kingdom of Benin or Edo Empire (1440–1897), a pre-colonial African state located in what is now known as the Southern region...

Benin by abolishment of the killing of the king's mother, giving Idia the title of Iyoba (or Queen Mother), and providing the Eguae-Iyoba (Palace of the...

displayed on an ancestral altar commemorating an Iyoba of Benin (a queen mother), an unusual example of a male animal being used to commemorate a woman...

Iyoba and the major war chief. The eyes and two bands between them are inset with iron. These reflect the oral tale of how Idia came to be the Iyoba;...

been held by men, except Iyoba of Benin, Beninese women have been in a lower social class since ancient times. The Oba of Benin had a wife and many concubines...

In: Lindsay Jones: Encyclopedia of Religion. Thomson-Gale, 2005. ISBN 002865997X "Queen Mother Pendant Mask: Iyoba". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 25...

Benin ancestral altars are adorned with some of the finest examples of art from the Benin Kingdom of south-central Nigeria. According to anthropologists...

reliefs, like the famous Benin Bronzes, to decorate palaces and for highly naturalistic royal heads from around the Bini town of Benin City, Edo State, as...

tragic deaths of approximately five thousand people. In a shocking turn of events, Obanosa ordered the public execution of his own mother, Iyoba Ose, by stoning...

the capital of the Kingdom of Benin. He was the son of Oba Eresoyen, who reigned from 1735 to 1750, and Iyoba Eweba I, who was one of Eresoyen's many...

introduced the use of native cooking salt in Benin. Orhogbua was born in Benin City, the eldest son of Oba Esigie and Queen Elaba, the second Iyoba at lower Uselu...

the eldest son of Oba Orhogbua and Iyoba Umelu who later became the eighteenth Oba of Benin about 1578 AD. He was accused by the Uwangue of Uselu, a senior...

ceremonial and personal objects from the Nigerian Court of Benin donated by Klaus Perls. The range of materials represented in the Africa, Oceania, and Americas...

Iyalode Iyoba Queen mothers in Africa Nnamdi, Onyirioha (2017-12-15). "Erelu Kuti IV of Lagos, Abiola Dosunmu, sheds more light on the true origin of Lagos...

of villages and settlements in Edo State, Nigeria organized by local government area (LGA) and district/area (with postal codes also given). One of such...

Later called Ibirinya Etekan) Egwe Ogbolodom Eyoka ( The precursor of Ibirinya Iyoba) This lineage was the latest arrival, available records show that...