Dynasty and DivinityDynasty and Divinity presents a major part of the extraordinary corpus of ancient Ife art in terra cotta, stone, and metal, dating from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists at Ife, the ancient city state of the Yoruba people of West Africa (located in present day southwestern Nigeria), created sculpture that ranks among the most aesthetically striking and technically sophisticated in the world. Dynasty and Divinity reveals the extraordinarily