Plaque - AF5108 | Collections

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Object Number:	AF5108
Current Location:	Africa Galleries Currently On Display
Culture:	Edo (Africa)
Provenience:	Nigeria Benin Kingdom
Date Made:	16th century CE
Early Date:	1500
Late Date:	1599
Section:	African
Materials:	Copper Alloy Brass
Technique:	Lost Wax Casting
Iconography:	Human Figure Ox Head
Height:	42.01 cm
Width:	38 cm
Depth:	9.5 cm
Credit Line:	Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1920
Other Number:	134 - Dealer's Number 068 - Cast Number

Description

Plaque with two figures/warrior. Figures wearing hair styled in corn rows, leaopard-tooth necklaces, and wrapper. Figure on right carries an double dagger at hip, medicine bicep bracelet and wrist bracelet on right arm. Figure on left carries a animal head.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

African Gallery (1990 - Aug 1995)	View Objects in Exhibition
Africa Galleries: From Maker To Museum (16 Nov 2019)	View Objects in Exhibition
African Gallery (1987 - 1990)	View Objects in Exhibition
African Gallery ( Aug 1995 - 11 Sep 2018)	View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Quick, Jennifer. 2004. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. ed. 1st. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 18, fig. 12	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue] 1965. Reproductions.. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 25	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue] Plass, Margaret B. 1956. African Tribal Sculpture.. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 33	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Wieschhoff, H. A. 1945. "The African Collections of The University Museum: Introduction". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 11. no. 1-2. pg. 7-8 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 61, fig. 22	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Hall, Henry U. 1922. "Great Benin Royal Altar". The Museum Journal. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 13. no. 2. pg. 105-168 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 121, fig. 45	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] Curnow, Kathy. 2016. Iyare! Splendor and Tension In Benin's Palace Theatre.. pg. 252 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 28	View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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