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An early Benin or Owo Double-face Bronze-head with flicking teeth, a broard, prominent nose framed by bulging eyes, serpents coming out of the nostrils, on top of the egg-shaped, elongated head a row of partly fragmentary feet; thinwalled with several cracks and small holes, greenish, encrusted patina of different layers. This object is coming from a Yoruba altar, unknown the purpose of the recent wire surrounding the fragmentary .

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Height: 26,5 cm
Weight: 2,7 kg

 

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