Isn’t this beautiful!
Just one of many Benin bronze figures included in the Met’s “Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas” exhibits.
“Oba” was the term used for King in Benin, West Africa (now part of Nigeria) I am so grateful that some of this former kingdom’s art has been preserved.
Art can be such a history lesson sometimes. So often it represents what is most important to a people during specific periods of their time.
Head of an Oba, 16th century (ca. 1550) Nigeria; Edo, Court of Benin (Brass);
The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/introduction.asp?dep=5
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