| Object Number |
AF5082 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Edo (Africa) |
| Provenience |
Nigeria | Benin Kingdom |
| Date Made |
16th century CE |
| Section |
African |
| Materials |
Copper Alloy | Brass |
| Technique |
Lost Wax Casting |
| Iconography |
Male Head |
| Description |
Trophy head with four eyebrow marks that distinguish foreigners, hair in five evenly stacked rows, wearing an odigba collar. |
| Height |
20.7 cm |
| Credit Line |
Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1921 |
| Other Number |
105? - Dealer's Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Dorling Kindersley Limited. History of the World in 1,000 Objects. London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2014. See: p. 263 |
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| Plass, Margaret B. "African Negro Sculpture: A Walk Through the Gallery." The University Museum Bulletin 21, no. 4. ( Dec 1957): 5-76. See: p. 39 |
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| Hall, Henry U. "Great Benin Royal Altar." The Museum Journal 13, no. 2. (1922): 105-168. See: p.113, fig. 39 |
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| Curnow, Kathy. Iyare! Splendor and Tension In Benin's Palace Theatre. 2016. See: p. 53 |
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| Ben-Amos, Paula G., and Arnold Rubin. The Art of Power The Power of Art: Studies in Benin Iconography. UCLA Museum of Cultural History, 1983. Page/Fig./Plate: 111 See: p. 76 |
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