IDIOPHONE animated by an IBIS, a mythological bird resting on a hollowed-out and openwork cylindrical column, is used on the occasion of the annual Ugie Oro ceremony. The sound was obtained using a stick struck on the beak of the avian figure.

Ancient Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria 19th century
Copper alloy
H.: 29.2; L.: 14.3 cm

Bibliography:
A similar example is reproduced in the catalogue of the exhibition Benin Royal Treasure collection of the Museum für Volkerkunde. Vienna, from the Dapper Museum, p.83.
Another, in the work The Art of Benin, plate V, fig. 204 and 205.

No. 641 of the exhibition “BRONZES, MONUMENTAL MINIATURES”, second part