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Earth as Witness
01 / INHERITANCE
Begin with the context.
Earth occupies a sacred and social position in Ògbóni / Òṣùgbó accounts. Relations with land are expressed through institutions and their objects.
Place & variation
Yorùbá places and devotional traditions. Sacred narratives, historical records and material evidence are different forms of knowledge.
02 / SYSTEM — EDITORIAL ANALYSIS
Place & cycles.
Land, witness and social obligation are connected.
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 changes when agreements acknowledge the place that sustains them?
The ground beneath an agreement becomes a participant in its ethics.
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.
- 01University of Michigan Museum of Art — Pair of staffs ↗Museum collection / material evidence · Opens source
- 02New Orleans Museum of Art — Ogboni / Oshugbo society figures ↗Museum collection / material evidence · Opens source
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.