
Figure (art)

Figure (art)

Figures (art)
Neck ornament (neck ornament)
Goad (elephant furniture)

Ohen n' ugbor n'ome eto ene (the elusive priest of ugbor village with four braided hair strands)
Figure (art)
Rice mortar model; rice pestle model


111.242.121 suspended bells struck from the outside

Knife (weapons: edged)
Whip (domestication of animals)

Busts (art)
1 idiophones; 11 struck idiophones; 111 idiophones struck directly; 111.1 concussion idiophones or clappers 111.143 concussion bells



111.242.122 clapper bells
Oba orhogbua
List of antiquities and curiosities from benin for total of £93.5.0.

Blanket (clothing: outerwear)

Toy figure

Oku'oba (oba's emissary)


Plaque (art)

Currency unit (currency & wealth)

111.242.12 suspended bells

Plaque (art)


Toy figure

Altar piece (ritual & belief: ritual apparatus); bells

Busts (art)




Guilloche, oba n'iri agbon


Shuttle (textileworking: needlework)





Mask; pectoral mask


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