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ID number: BIRRC-D0036 Institution: Research and Cultural Collections Named collection: African Collection Artist / Maker: Chief Enahin Title / Object name: Queen mother head (Iyoba) Object type: Sculpture Place made: Benin City, Nigeria Culture: Edo (Bini) Date made: 1950 Collector: Danford, John Materials: Brass Measurements: 37 cm |
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Sculptural head wearing coral bead headress. Notes: Chief Enahin was in charge of the Benin brass foundry. Supposedly based on a 17th century original, but W. Fagg points out that by 1950 there was a plaster cast of the B.M. original in the Benin museum. |
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| Danford, John 1913 1970 | |
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