ZOOMORPH STATUETTE depicting a SACRED IBIS
Former Kingdom of Benin?, Nigeria
Around 1900
Copper alloy
H.: 33; L.: 7 cm
This mythological bird stands on its long legs separated from each other, its head slightly tilted towards the sky. Its plumage is marked with large incisions while the line of its beak is fine and its eyes shaped like tapered almonds.
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