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ID number:  BIRRC-D0036
Institution:  Research and Cultural Collections
Named collection:  Danford Collection of West African Art and Artefacts
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

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