The Yoruba people are most associated with which type of traditional art?

Aso-Oke is a hand-woven cloth made on a narrow horizontal loom, produced traditionally by Yoruba weavers in towns such as Iseyin, Oyo, and Ilorin. The cloth is woven in long, narrow strips that are then sewn together to form wide fabric used for gowns, wrappers, and caps, and it carries deep cultural significance among the Yoruba, being worn at weddings, chieftaincy installations, and other important ceremonies.

What makes Aso-Oke distinctively Yoruba is both the technique, narrow-strip weaving on a specific type of loom, and the social role of the cloth as a marker of status, occasion, and identity within Yoruba communities. This combination of a signature craft technique and strong cultural association is exactly what allows an art form to be identified with a particular ethnic group.

Terracotta sculpture is associated with other traditions such as Nok and Ife figurative art, wall painting is more closely linked with groups such as the Nsukka or northern Nigerian traditions, and bronze casting is most strongly identified with Ife and Benin metalworking rather than with the Yoruba weaving heritage that the question is testing.

When a question links an ethnic group to a specific art form, recall the material and technique most consistently taught as that group's signature craft, since several Nigerian groups may work in related media but each has one form most strongly tied to its identity.