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The English translation of Ayan is the Drummer.
This work shows a Yoruba man playing his talking drum called Gangan. Gangan is a Yoruba cultural heritage. This drum is known to be the best talking drum in the whole world. This drum is used in festivals. It is also used to sing praises of influential people in the society. The Yoruba's also use the this drum in the war front to boost the morale of their warriors.

This kind of a chair is being used by elders or chiefs in the community. 

This particular Chair that appears in this picture is surrounded by a lot of traditional carvings on both side and on the front panel.

TITLE : CHAIR

TITLE: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

This Carving depicts a culture of Yoruba people in helping develop the community. They gather themselves together on a selected day to do a community development project. The women are out to give them support in terms of giving them food and water and at times palm wine. 

Through this kind of combined effort, they build a better society for themselves.

This work show the ways laws are made in the olden days.

Africans make kings as their leaders. They also make Chiefs subordinates to these kings. The combination of these chiefs and the king make the council of elders. Anytime they want to make laws the King and the Chiefs will sit together to dialogue on how to make the law.

TITLE: COUNCIL OF ELDERS

This Carvings show how the rich and powerful men of the olden days in Africa use their power and wealth to dominate over the poor ones unjustly.

In this work, a rich man was shown climbing of the other poor man who has gone down on his kneels in an unwilling submission.

  This work portrays the mode those  war leader normally be when they are preparing for war.

They will be filled with the spirit of war.

TITLE: WAR LEADER

These sets of people were paying tribute to their king. This is done by singing a lot of encouraging praises to him amidst sounds of different types of drums, trumpets and shouting. This is another way of showing respect to their king. They usually dress themselves in their best to make the whole show colorful and exiting.

This is a typical Yoruba hunter returning from the bush. The carving showed the hunter with his dog and the games he had been able to kill during his operation in the bush. He gets home to go and give thanks to Ogun (The god of iron) whom he believed has saved him trough the dangerous bush he had gone through. 

TITLE: HUNTER

This is a group of people that play for people to make them happy. This is type of thing these people do to put body and soul together. They play all sort of melodious music to make people feel real good in such a way that they start raining money on them.

TITLE: MERRY MAKER