Sculpture
AF5104
From: Nigeria | Benin Kingdom
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | AF5104 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Ijebu | Yoruba | Edo (Africa) |
| Provenience | Nigeria | Benin Kingdom |
| Culture Area | Yoruba | Ijebu |
| Creator | Ijebu | Yoruba |
| Date Made | 17th-19th century CE |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Copper Alloy | Brass |
| Technique | Lost Wax Casting |
| Iconography | Human Figure | Elephant | Standing male figure |
| Description | Multi-figure altar piece, base open at center and decorated with guilloche pattern around base. Figure at each corner - at back are two humans wearing hats, circlet necklace, torso markings, and wrappers; at front are two elephants with trunks terminating in hands/clapsed fist with up-turn thumb. Body of decorated with crosshatching and dots, half concentric circles form ears and raised half circles form eyes. |
| Height | 18 cm |
| Length | 25 cm |
| Width | 21.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1920 |
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