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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