Benin City

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Figure 175: Memorial king's head, bronze, from Benin, Nigeria, 15th century. In the Museum fur Volkerkunde, Vienna. Height 25.5 cm.

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Benin City: oba's palace

Mud relief sculpture, oba's (king's) palace, Benin City, Nigeria.

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Benin City, Nigeria

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Head of an oba

Head of an oba, brass sculpture by Edo artists in the court of the kingdom of Benin...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979, (1979.206.87); www.metmuseum.org

Figure 175: Memorial king's head, bronze, from Benin, Nigeria, 15th century. In the...

Courtesy of the Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna;photograph Photo Meyer K.G.

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