Ewé
Leaves
01 / INHERITANCE
Begin with the context.
Plant knowledge sits at the centre of much traditional medicinal practice. UNESCO records more than 200 medicinally known plant species within Ọ̀ṣun-Òṣogbo Grove alone.
Place & variation
Yorùbá material and devotional traditions. This public record gives cultural context, not instructions or evidence of medical efficacy.
02 / SYSTEM — EDITORIAL ANALYSIS
Knowledge & interpretation.
Knowledge of plants links naming, place and learned practice.
This is the archive’s reading of a structure or relationship, not a claim that the tradition was designed as a modern technology.
03 / FUTURE — INHERITED FUTURES SPECULATION
Could a living archive help communities care for the environments that sustain their knowledge?
The forest as a biological knowledge library.
An artistic proposition to explore. Historical documentation does not establish the technological analogy.
FOLLOW THE RESEARCH
Sources & context.
The linked sources distinguish collection evidence, research and contextual reading. They support the inheritance layer; the system and future layers are editorial interpretations.
Research edition 01 · September 2026. A desk-research synthesis; not a practitioner-certified account. Some linked books and articles require library access. Read the evidence guide ↗
Follow another thread.
Editorial links connect shared themes, objects and practices. They do not make the records interchangeable.