Powder Keg

Object Number:

AF5074

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Edo (Africa)

Provenience:

Nigeria
Benin Kingdom

Section:

African

Materials:

Bronze
Copper Alloy

Technique:

Lost wax casting

Iconography:

Monkey Head

Description:

Covered with embossed leaf brass. The stopper a monkey's head in wood.

Iyare: Splendor and Tension in Benin's Palace Theater (01 Nov 2008 - 01 Mar 2009)

[Book] Hall, H. U. 1922. "Great Benin Royal Altar". XIII, No.2 (June). pp. 105-168. : Page/Fig./Plate: 167

[Book] Plass, Margaret. 1959. Seven Metals of Africa.