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Lagos in Procession
01 / INHERITANCE
Begin with the context.
Ẹ̀yọ̀ masquerade is associated with Lagos, including commemorative rites. Museum textile records connect its white regalia with Awori ceremonial life.
Place & variation
Lagos, particularly Awori contexts represented in the cited collection record.
02 / SYSTEM — EDITORIAL ANALYSIS
Presence & embodiment.
Procession temporarily reorganises the city as a ceremonial space.
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
What could a city remember through movement?
The city becomes a moving memorial, organised through a shared visual language.
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.