File:Clevelandart 1938.6.jpg
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Head |
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| Description |
Metal arts flourished in the Benin kingdom from the 15th to the 19th century, until the British military sacked the Benin capital in 1897. This brass head depicts the divine Benin ruler cloaked in a headdress and collar of red coral beads. Such heads were ordered by a new king (oba) as centerpieces for the ancestral altar--an earthen platform--in honor of his deceased predecessor. |
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| Date | 1550 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Brass | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Overall: 29.9 x 21.6 x 20.4 cm (11 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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African Art |
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1938.6 |
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| Place of creation | Guinea Coast, Nigeria, Benin Kingdom, Edo, possibly mid 16th or early 17th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Dudley P. Allen Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The three-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with copyright terms of life of the creator plus 70 years or less. The creation of photographic reproduction of this object, however, generates a new copyright and an additional statement should be provided to indicate the copyright status of the image.
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This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. |
| The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
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This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project with the Cleveland Museum of Art. See the Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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| current | 07:59, 21 January 2019 | | 2,472 × 3,400 (3.86 MB) | Madreiling | pattypan 18.02 |
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