altar
- Museum number
- Af1948,02.11
- Description
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Lower part of a wooden altar block, with circular socket in middle, with two crocodiles and mudfish on top, with the vertical front with carved antelope heads, hands, flasks and a human figure; used by chiefs.
- Production date
- 16thC - 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 11 centimetres
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Width: 57 centimetres
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Depth: 32 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1948:
"Wooden altar block, with circular socket in middle, with 2 crocodiles & mudfish on top, & the vertical front with carved antelope heads, hands, flasks, & a human figure.
BENIN, NIGERIA."
Register 1948 later addition:
"[lower portion of a chief's altar of the hand, ikegobo (later completed by an
upper portion in the Wellcome collection) (W.B.F.)]"
For the upper portion, see Af1954,23.295.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1970-1973, London, Museum of Mankind, Divine Kingship in Africa
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Acquisition notes
- Af1948,02.1 to 18 were purchased from W F C Ohly, partly through exchange.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1948,02.11
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 14.PL.J