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In the ealier days of human hair weaves and hair straightening chemicals , all that was expected to administer to the hair were natural cleansers, regular hair oils or butters, fascinating wooden cut brushes like the ones bellow, and a couple of deliberately vetted hands – customary Yoruba science believes that your hair and nails hold the pith of your being and can be utilized to direct hostile supernatural forces to you.
In the 70s it was still basic to own a carved Yoruba wooden brush beside the humble ilarun ( cutting brush) , however now the best examples are in museums and auction houses far from Yoruba land.
Yoruba hair comb depicting a chief, with headdress, on a horse.
Bronze Yoruba Comb – Photo Credit : www.wolfzafricanart.com
Bronze Comb depicting Sango staff
Yoruba wooden comb credit : www.artenegro.com
The humble ilarun, used for parting hair into sections for braiding
Ivory Comb from Owo, a Yoruba realm on the border of Benin
Back in the day Hairstyles
The regal Suku hair style
Agere Ifa carved figurines , like the one a couple of photos below
“One of the many elaborate forms of hair dressing adopted by young Yoruba women in Ado Ekiti district of Ondo Province. Red jasper beads and gold ear-rings form a most pleasing combination.”
Agere Ifa
Suku, embellished with cowrie shells
Kings’s messenger, “are”. Shaki. Photo by William Fagg, 1959. Ilari wore a special hairstyle with most or half of the hair shaved off . William Fagg captured this image
A young Ilari boy with the half shaved head hair style. He is a king’s attendant
