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Object Number:AF5081
Current Location: Africa Galleries
Currently On Display
Culture:Edo (Africa)
Provenience: Nigeria
Benin Kingdom
Date Made: 19th century CE
Early Date: 1800
Late Date: 1899
Section:African
Materials:Copper Alloy
Brass
Technique:Lost Wax Casting
Iconography:Human Head
Height: 44.7 cm
Outside Diameter:29 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1921

Description

Representation of the Ọba. Wearing a beaded crown with flower-shaped ornaments and two projections at the sides, beaed extension that project forward at eye level, single large bead hangs from center lower rim of crown, braids decorated with beads hang from sides and back, "V" shaped decoration beneath each eye. Wearing an (odigba) stacked beaded collar from neck to lower lip . Flang at base has in flat relief an elephant trunk ending in human hand cluching leaves, rams head, and thunderbolt on guilloche pattern.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

African Negro Sculpture (1957 - 1957) View Objects in Exhibition
Iyare: Splendor and Tension in Benin's Palace Theater (01 Nov 2008 - 01 Mar 2009) View Objects in Exhibition
African Gallery (1990 - Aug 1995) View Objects in Exhibition
Discovering the Past: Highlights from the University Museum (IBM) (20 Jun 1989 - 20 Aug 1989) 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:

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[Catalogue, Exhibition] Curnow, Kathy. 2016. Iyare! Splendor and Tension In Benin's Palace Theatre.. pg. 252 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 36View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Plass, Margaret B. Dec 1957. "African Negro Sculpture: A Walk Through the Gallery". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 21. no. 4. pg. 5-76 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p.26View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Hall, Henry U. 1932. "The African Collections". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 3. no. 6. pg. 145-171 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 166-167, pl. XView Objects related to this Actual Citation

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