masks and statues for the Oba. These are often called 'Benin Bronzes', however most are actually made of brass rather than bronze. Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK. I’d like to show you ...
Nigeria is expected to receive over 100 Benin Bronze artifacts that were stolen ... return of many of their cultural ...
it isn’t all of these statues that are made of bronze. Others were made of figurines, tusks, sculptures of Benin’s rulers, and an ivory mask, formed between the 15th and 19th Centuries.
The sculpture is one of 26 artefacts returning to their homeland in present-day Benin after decades in a ... They are works of wood and bronze — emblems of military brawn and intricate ...
not very many people in Benin are exposed to contemporary art business apart from bronze sculptures. She observed that some see art as photograph that you buy and hang somewhere, adding that very ...