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Benin : royal art of Africa from the Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna

135 pages : 30 cm "The ancient kingdom of Benin lies in the tropical rain forest of West Africa, in present-day Nigeria. During its classical age, from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, it produced one of the continent's most glorious artistic legacies. To reflect the splendor of the royal court, the Oba (king) commissioned highly skilled artisans to create rare and beautiful works of cast brass and carved ivory. These included human and animal figures, relief plaques, elephant tusks, pendants, bracelets, life-size commemorative heads of Obas and queen mothers, and ceremonial objects t…

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Source	Internet Archive
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	[Houston] : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ; Munich : Prestel
Date	1994-01-01
Type	texts
Details	ia subject
Found at	https://archive.org/details/beninroyalartofa0000duch
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Record ID	`internet-archive:beninroyalartofa0000duch`

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Benin : royal art of Africa from the Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna. Internet Archive, 1994. Vero Archive, record internet-archive:beninroyalartofa0000duch.