Asset number
1613686530
Description
Relief plaque, lost-wax cast in brass. Wide plaque, rectangular in form with side flanges. Background surface decorated with river leaf patterns and stippling. Two European (Portuguese) figures, heads and torsos in profile, at top. Both have long hair, helmets with three bosses and feathers, and wear long-sleeved tunics. Figure on left holds manilla, figure on right holds unidentified object to mouth. Nail hole at top centre and two holes at bottom left and right.
Depicts seated Oba, facing front, flanked by two kneeling supporters, enobore, facing inwards. Holds hammer in right hand. Oba wears cylindrical beaded crown with oro protrusion and three ornamental beads, deep beaded collar, beaded tunic, waist pendants in form of human heads and patterned skirt. Attendants similarly dressed: deep beaded collars, cylindrical headdresses with oro protrusion, long beaded tunics, waist pendants in form of crocodile heads and patterned skirts.
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