Ethnographic Objects

Headdress

Local Name:Mama

Wooden headdress of a buffalo flanked left and right by the horns. A snout and the horns surmount adome hollowed out to accommodate the head of the weaver. It is worn during masquerading aimed at providing healing

Headdress

Local Name:Gelede

A wooden headdress surmounted by a cock, pecking on a snake and on both temples are snakes

Metal Bell

Local Name:Ayajo Ogboni

A conical metal bell resting on a round base

Metal Gong

Local Name:Agogo Ifa

Metal conical double gong

Wooden Face Mask

Local Name:Ekpo

Wooden facemask with a cap designed with a band and three dots, tribal marks on both sides of the ears and forehead, hollow eyes and showing dentition

Headdress

Local Name:Ekoi

A skin-covered wooden headdress on a circular cane bas. On the head is a crest and the facial features are naturalistic

Wooden Skin Headdress

Local Name:Ekoi

A Skin-Covered wooden headdress on a cane base. Its eyes and mouth, are painted white and it has a protruding neck

Headdress

Local Name:Gelede

A wooden headdress wearing a cap with interwoven lines forming a turban. It has perforated eyes and two fangs sticking out of the mouth.

Wooden Slit Drum

Local Name:Elepe Obu

Cylindrical slit drum with wide hollow hole at the top but convex at the base

Double Metal Gong

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Double metal gong with flat oval shape and fish like opening. It is used to disseminate communal information

Wooden Slit Drum

Local Name:Ekwe

A cylindrical wooden slit gong with a drum stick and at the top are two stumps of wood that serves as a handle.

Wooden Gong

Local Name:Ekwe Ogbu

Rectangular Slit wood gong

Wooden Gong

Local Name:Ekwe Nze

Rectangular slit wooden gong hollowed at one end to form the handle. It is beaten with a stick

Slit Drum

Local Name:Ilu

A cylindrical slit drum with human head with phallus-like hairdo

Wooden Slit Drum

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Cylindrical slit drum with a handle

Calabash Gourd

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A calabash decorated with symmetrical geometric engravings and by burning.A leather rope is attached to the neck to serve as handle.

Palmwine Gourd

Local Name:Agbe Emu

A gourd decorated with symmetric geometric engravings with rope tied to the neck.

Wooden Spoon

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Wooden Spoon with a stylized anthropomorphic handle that feature an abstract uman face and incised lines. the face has oblong hairstyle, simplified and facial feature and a pair of diagonal tribal markings on both cheeks

A Par of Wooden Spoons

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A Pair of Wooden spoon with handles decorated with open work carvings and geometric incisions

Raffia basket

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A Raffia basket with four handles made of Raffia

Wooden Headdress

Local Name:Waterspirit Headdre

A wooden Water Spirit headdress representing six abstract male figures on a canoe, with a ragged jute to represent fishing net, and each male wearing a black cap and red loincloth. the boat surmounts a concave dome to which is atached woven cane. it is painted red, black, green and white.

Native Body Cream

Local Name:Udeh

Brownish body cream with a spherical upper part and a smaller round lower part

Glass beads

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Six stringed purple, peach and blue glass beads

Flywhisk

Local Name:Irukere

Flywhiisk with beaded handle depicting an equestrian Figure

Staff

Local Name:Irokefa

Wooden Staff, A female figure with an attached beaded cap, kneelng on a long pedestal adorned with coloured beads

Wooden Headdress

Local Name:Waterspirit

A waterspirit headdress representing a crocodile head painted green with accents of black and white. it has a gaping mouth with serrated dentition and a metallic bell dangling from the upper lip. it has three horns at the beack with a metallic bell on the middle one. it surmounts a concaved.

Cane Shield

Local Name:Edem

A cane rectangular shaped shield with spark-like pattern used to hold the cane. it has a long wooden handle at the back

Wooden Headdress

Local Name:Owu

Water Spirit headdress depicting an animal sculpture on an oval shaped and cane woven on it.

Woden Headdress

Local Name:Waterspirit

Wooden headdress painted in red, black and white colours. it has a protruding forehead, raised conical eyes, enlongated designs representing the beard

Wooden headdress

Local Name:Owu masquerade

Waterspirit headdress representing one central and eght minature faces on an elongated wood structure and with stains of orange and white pigment, each face has cylindrical eyes triangular nose and square mouth, with the centered face featuring sharp triangular dentition

Clay Bowl

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A Clay bowl with four segmented.

Wooden Headdress

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Wooden headdress depicting crocodile, the body design represent scales and zig-zag design under the legs with cane woven under it

Ritual Pot

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Terracotta Pot with haired rim, depiction scales the pot has a head and give human figures with a ladder

Clay Pot

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A rounded ceramic pot with thick rim and the surface embossed with intricate rlief patterns. it has a flattened base

Clay Pot

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Multicoloured clay pot with symmetric designs with a circular mouth. it is supported with a circular base. there are cracks on the top of the pot

Clay Pot

Local Name:Osa-Ile

A Terracotta Pot with three handles. it has geometric designs and dot opening round

Shield

Local Name:Kwagaru

Circular leather shield with a cone in the middle. on the inside is a long twine, used as a handle

Raffia Rattle with Base

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A conical shaped raffia rattle with enclosing bells. the lower part pf the rattle is covered with a cloth and placed on a circular raffia based

Lidded Calabash

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A Calabash representing a bowl with non-detachable lid. the lid is embossed with symmetrical dotted patterns and attached to the top and side of the bowl is incised with rectangular patterns.

Gourd (Cup)

Local Name:Ife

A gourd cup with symmetric designs

Calabash Spoon

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Calabash Spoon decorated by symmetrical geometric engravings and burning

Woven Basket with Lid

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Woven Raffia basket with interwoven designs on the basket and lid. the basket has two woven handles with one on each side of the basket. Also a woven rope is tied to the handle for easy carriage

Climbing Rope

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A palmwine tappers rope made from intertwined palm frond fibre. one end is tied to from an adjustable loop lined with the outer bark of the woodrib of palm frond

Wooden Spoon

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Wooden spoon with a stylized anthropomorphic handle that features an abstract human face and incised lines. the elongated face has its head framed with pointed triangular like arch with simplfied facial features and a pair of diagonal tribal markings on both cheeks.

Wooden Spoon

Local Name:Sibi Obe

Wooden Spoon with a long handle decorated with engraved designs on both sides.

Calabash Bowl

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A calabash bowl decorated inside and out with symmetrical and intricate geometric engravings and burning.

Climbling Rope

Local Name:Igba

Pair of palmwine tapper's climbing rope made from intertwined palm frond fibre with a curved palmfrond midrib tied around the support connected by a knot

Wooden Drum

Local Name:Igede

A wooden goblet drum with the membrane attached to the mouth with leather twain strings of cane are interwined into the twain and it extends to the mid-section and held together by two rings of cane

Wooden Drum

Local Name:Egede

Drum with Single membrane fastened to the body of the drum by cane rope. it has a square opening and three triangular shaped openingat the botom

Wooden Drum

Local Name:Bata

Wooden Drum with leather membrane at both ends. it has leather and cane stripes all over the body, a leather stripe ised in hanging it on the shoulder.

Calabash Rattle

Local Name:Eyisa

A calabash rattle with strikers of seeds held together with a cotton twain.

Calabash Rattle

Local Name:Sekere Oosa

Gourd decorated with cowries twined together all around the middle of the gourd to produce sound

Calabash Rattle

Local Name:Sere Sango

An Oval calabash rattle with a tapered lower part

Wooden Drum

Local Name:Bembe Oya

A Cylindrical drum with leather membrane at the top and bottom and it is held firm with leather twain that criss-cross the drum. it has a leather strap attached to the drum

Wooden Drum

Local Name:Bembe Oya

A wooden double membrane drum with leather twain used to fasten the leather membrane to the base of the drum

Talking Drum

Local Name:Dundun

Minature drum carved from a single wood in talking drum style, with circular shape handle

Talking Drum

Local Name:Isaju

Squat hair-like shaped drum with double membrane with leather rope tied in vertical lines from the top to bottom and the drum stick attached to it

Drum

Local Name:Igbaji

Cylindrical drum of single membrane with geometric designs all around it. it has four stumps attached to four sides and textile tied to one of the stumps and handle

Drum

Local Name:Ekomo (War Drum)

Wooden Drum with a leather membrane and cane stripes on the body. the lower part is tapered

Wooden Drum

Local Name:Gudugudu

Drum with short cylindrical wooden body, double membrane one at each end, a network of leather strings around the wooden body and a ragged textile to form the handle.

Sango Staff

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Staff with human head and hair parted into two mounds, bulgy eyes and tribal marking on both cheeks. it has seven metal rings all around it and pointes metal tip.

Wooden Staff

Local Name:Nkpara Ozo

Staff with a knob at the top. it is designed with metal, spiral and studs all over it. it has a pointed metal tip

Wooden Staff

Local Name:Alo Nze

Wooden Staff carved in three segments. at the top is diamond shape with two heads joined back to back at the head.

Wooden Staff

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Wooden Staff with three super structure and a human head knob. it is carved on a square base.

Ancestral Figure

Local Name:National Museum Lagos

Standing male figure with a bolla hat structure on the head, simplified facial structure with pointed nose, incision on both temple and plaited beards. hands are holding objects, it has bulbous, onion shape abdomen, with pronounced naval and short legs on

Ancestral Figure

Local Name:Ekpu

A Male figures standing on a circular base with a small cap structured on the head, incisions on the forehead, eye bow and sides of the eyes, simplified facial features and coiled elongated beard, it is holding two minature human figures to its chest. it has pronounced ribs, body incisions on its protruding stomach, pronounced genitals and short legs

Wooden Staff

Local Name:Ofor

A stump of wood with spikes around the body and pointed tip. it has cane rings on the upper part. and round it and the body is covered with spiky projections.

Wooden Staff

Local Name:Ose Sango

A wooden quadruple face Sango Staff depicting an axe. on the neck are triangular designs that represents Sango Cult. it is painted black, and indigo

Wooden Staff

Local Name:Ofor

A wooden staff adorned with metal casting. An anch-like metal casting surrounded by a human face which forms its top, and a metal loop forms its base.

Wooden Rattle Staff

Local Name:Uhuru

Rattle Staff with the upper representing a human head. the part below the head encloses a piece of wood to form rattle and upper tip stand. the staff is designed with geometric lines

Rattle Staff

Local Name:Ukhure

Rattle Staff carved in segments, the upper segment representing a folded palm, the mid segment designed with geometric lines and encloses a piece of wood to form rattle, and surmounts an elongated stand

Wooden Staff

Local Name:Ofor

Wooden Ofo Staff carved to a base with two circular projections that have intricate designs and symbols at both ends and at the middle are two reptiles representation, it serves as a symbol of peace, building in igbo Community.

Wooden Human Figure

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Standing wooden male figure with well defined hair-line and face painted white. it has a red painted rectangular projection on the stout neck with hands at akimbo and stout legs painted black

Wooden Face mask

Local Name:Akatakpa

Face Mask with white pigments , holes on both eye lids, bulgy eyes, long nose and open mouth

Wooden Leather Drum

Local Name:Ekede

Tubular wooden drum with leather covered at one end and raffia rope.

Wooden Facemask

Local Name:Ibibio

A wooden face mask with conical hairdo and a naturalistic facial features. the lower part of the eyes are hollowed.

Wooden Facemask

Local Name:Isi Mmawu

A wooden facemask with a well defined frontal hairline. it has slit eyes, pointed nose and a visible dentition. On both cheeks and temple are two studs and cresent marks. it is painted black and white.

Bull Roarer

Local Name:Oro

Wooden bull roarer with relief carving of human figure, geometric design and a hole bored at the top

Wooden Bull Roarer

Local Name:Oro

Wooden Bull roarer with relief carving of two human figure

Wooden Bowl

Local Name:Agere Ifa

Wooden kneeling nude female figure with beads on the neck and wrist carrying a bowl on a base

Wooden Divination Bowl

Local Name:Agere ifa

Receptacle bearing a bowl like hollow on top wth handles, supported underneath with four human figures curved on a flat base.

Wooden Receptacle

Local Name:Agere Ifa

Wooden Bowl called Agere Ifa supported on a circular base by a coiled Aligator

Wooden ifa Divinaation Tray

Local Name:Opon ifa

Circular diameter traywith different animals and Esu face carved on the rim

Wooden Receptacle

Local Name:Agere ifa

Wooden Bowl with two handles carved on a bird with human head in its mouth on a round base

Wooden Receptacle

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Wooden bowl with two stands carved tothe base with a bird

Wooden Drum

Local Name:Gbegbegunegbe

Drum wih nude kneeling male figure on a round base.

Face Mask

Local Name:Ori Egun

Wooden facemask with short hons, large ears, oval perforated eyes, broad nose and a gaping mouth. it has three vertical and horizontal marks on both cheeks and a part of the jaw is chipped. it is painted black and white

Wooden Drum

Local Name:Igede igoru

A cylindrical wooden drum standing on three short legs. At the upper and lower sections are leather twain and two cane rings held together by strings of cane. it has a cane handle and the mebrane is missing

Wooden Drum

Local Name:Igede Ejor

Wooden Drum with sticks stitching out at both ends, only one end is covered with skin (membrane)

Wooden Staff

Local Name:Ochi-Okwuye/Opa Oye)

Wooden staff adorned with an animal donkey handle

Wooden Staff

Local Name:Opa

Wooden Staff with a high pointed shaft, rhythmic representation of four male and female figures each within three vertical tribal marks on each cheek holding thier chests and kneeling on a round base. the staff is coloured sparingly with white chalk and indigo blue

Wooden Staff

Local Name:Okute

Wooden Staff with a knob at the top with elaborate geometric designs and pointed metal tip

Wooden Staff

Local Name:Ofor

An Ofor Staff cut out from a tree log and at the upper part are a collection of cowries attached to the staff with fibre

Wooden Staff

Local Name:Ofor

A Conical short ofo staff with three metal rings lining its mid-section and one at its end

Wooden Staff

Local Name:Opa orisa

A wooden Staff with human head knob and it is painted black

Wooden Drum

Local Name:Ilu

A single membrane long wooden drum on a circular base. it has a cotton twain fastened to the stumps of wood around the mouth and the bdy is embellished with reliefs of human engaging in various activities

Wooden Headmask

Local Name:Ori Egun

Wooden head mask depicting bulgy eyes, long nose, famgs with an open mouth, showing the teeth

Wooden Face mask

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Wooden Face mask with stump of wood carved on the head.

Wiooden Figure

Local Name:Ikenga

Wooden carved human head called Ikenga with two projected horns on three circular segmented base.

Wooden Figure

Local Name:Ikenga

Wood carved human head with two projected horns, limbless, long pipe, suspended from the mouth.

Terracota Pot

Local Name:Pito

A terracotta pot with three handles. it has geometric designs and dot opening round the mouth

Calabash Bowl

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A small round calabash bowl engraved with symmetrical geometric patterns

Tobacco Pipa

Local Name:Luepy

A tobacco pipe with a spherical chamber perforated with multiple holes and its lower part representing an abstract face with simplified facial features and spiral designs. it has an attached cylindrical pipe.

Wooden Headdress

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A wooden headdress depicting animal face with two branched-like horn. Painted white, green and brown

Plastic bead

Local Name:Jigida bead

One Stringed Jigida bead

Wooden Headdress

Local Name:Egungun Elede

Headdress in form of a bear head called Egungun Elede. the teeth are bared and both eyes are painted with white chalk, the rest of the neck is unpainted

Wooden Facemask

Local Name:Ekpo

Wooden facemask with protruding forehead, nose in between the hollow eyes, and hole in between the flapping cheeks with opened dentition.

Metal Rattle

Local Name:Aja

Metal rattle with three pods

Wooden Box

Local Name:Opon Obi

A rectangular wooden box with geometric designs.

Wooden Headdress

Local Name:Resi Manga

Headdress broad in front and horned at two sides with snout-like mouth pigment brown

Wooden Headdress

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Wooden Headdress with three curled horn like hair do, a naturalistic facial feature and an elongated neck

Cane Rattle

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Double cane rattle with handle, weaved in a basket form withe seeds, musical instrument

Basket Rattle

Local Name:Ncheche

Woven rattle musical instrument with seeds inside the basket

Ekoi Headdress

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A skin covered headdress on a circular cane base. on the head are rolls of stud-like plaits. the mustache and beard are highlighted with black paint.

Skin Covered Facemask

Local Name:Ekoi

A Skin-covered wooden Janus face helmet facemask. its facial features are naturalistic

Terracotta Head

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Human Head with traditional hairdo

terracotta Ritual Pot

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Pot containing sacrificial heads

Soap Stone

Local Name:Esie

Seated human figure with elaborate hairdo holding a sword in his hand

Terracotta Head

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Terracotta head with elaborate hairdo

Benin Bronze Memorial Head

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A head wearing traditional Benin crown with a helmet on the forehead. it has broad nose and wide mouth.

Zither

Local Name:Ubo

Decorated calabash musical instrument blared on a cane Zithar

Hand Piano

Local Name:Ubo Aka

Musical instrument made from calabash gorge with double opening and metal string.

Native Guitar

Local Name:Goge

One string musical instrument made from calabash and snake skin membrane

Wooden Piano

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Box like musical instrument with a metal string attached at the top.

Trumpet

Local Name:Kakaki

3 segments long metal trumpet.

Local Guitar

Local Name:Goje

A round musical instrument with leather, Skin and wood attached to it, with a metal player

Headdress

Local Name:Owu

Mask bearing human features with a headdress of bulbul Birds Sucking a flower

Wooden Flute

Local Name:Njese

A wooden flute with shallow circular incisions on the upper, mid and lower trunck.

Wooden Headdress

Local Name:Chamba

Wooden Headdress hank by a horn at the left hand. A pair of hollow opening forming nostril with raffia stuck in one of the nostrils. A snout and open jaw projecting outward. the mask is worn during rites of passage and at high grade funerals

Wooden Flute

Local Name:Oohu

A wooden conical flute with an opening at the top

Female Figure

Local Name:Ojibo

A standing nude female figure on a circular base. it has a crest on the head, natural facial features and the wrists, waist and legs are ornamented. it is muti-coloured.

Leather Drum

Local Name:Adamo Bata

Conical wooden drum with double membrane leather roped around it with a handle

Talking Drum

Local Name:Omele Bata

Wooden Leather talking drum with handle and two protective materials made of leather and cotton

Equestrian Figure

Local Name:Baba Orisha

Figure of man wearing a cap (fila) with three vertical marks on the forehead, slanty eyes, a staff on both hands and riding on a horse, all carved on a base.

Terracotta Human Burst

Local Name:Owo Terracotta Human Burst

Terracotta Burst of Owo human figure with a naturalistic look, blurred eyes, raised nose and mouth. on the neck is beaded necklace, the right arm extended alongside the body with part f the left hand chipped off.

Ivory Plaque

Local Name:Benin

Benin Ivory plaque of three kings in Harmony. the leg of the figure at the center carried in mudfish and reinforce, the importance of god of sun (Olokun) in Benin culture. it is worn by the Oba at important ceremony at the palace.

Wooden Standing Male Figure

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Standing male figure on a citcular base. it wears a crest on the head, piercing oval eyes, chipped upper lap and beard. on both cheeks are three vertical tribal marks. it holds container on both hands. it is painted with black pigment.

Wooden Headdress

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Wooden headdress with a crest and on the head, the face wears bulgy eyes, broad nose, open mouth and three vertical lines, tribal marks on both cheeks. it is painted, black and brown

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Wooden Superstructure of a ram head on a circular base, surmounted by three standing birds on its rim are geometric patterns to adorn it. it is painted black, white, blue and yellow colour.

Face Mask

Local Name:Olojufoforo

Wooden Facemask called Olojufoforo. with two female figures kneeling on the super-structure of the mask. the largest one is a priestess of Osun, and an attendant, who holds a lidded bowl.

Bronze Plaque

Local Name:Benin

Plaque depicting a male warrior. it is wearing a war cap, armlet, cross belts of charms and horn to the right hand. there are inscriptions of royal gong on the plate.

Wooden Headdress

Local Name:Psca

Wooden Headdress in the form of animal head, oval shaped eyes, raise ears and a bridge flaring nostrils. the face is adorned with white and red pigment. it is worn on the night of groundnut harvesting.

Wooden Headdress

Local Name:Otomporo

Wooden head mask representing human head with a knob on the head, geometric lines to form hairdo, bulgy eyes and a ring around the neck. the object is rubbed with red and indigo pigments.

Bronze Cock

Local Name:Okpa

Standing cock mounted on a large square base decorated by guilloche pattern. the cock is modelled with comb tail, spurs and incised patterns representing feather. Okukor is a ceremonial object displayed on an ancestral altar commemorating the strength and spiritual power of Iyaoba of Benin.

Wooden Face Mask

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Wooden face mask with a carved cap, a design on the fore head perforated eyes, drooping cheek and a pointed small nose. it is painted black.

Skin Covered Janus Helmet

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Janus-faced helmet mask has many holes bored on the hairline. Attached to the jaw is a piece of jute textile representing beards

Wooden Headdress

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Janus headdress, Yoruba Janus headdress representing Esu face, joined by a crest. the face wears bulgy eyes, broad nose, and mouth closed. on the face are vertical tribal marks and a projection to the head to beard. the face represent the unity between the ancestors and the living.

Kneeling Female Figure

Local Name:Osa Obatala

Wooden female figure, kneeling on a round base, painted black and red, with horizontal tribal markings on both cheeks, pointed breast and holding a bowl with her two hands.

Wooden Headdress

Local Name:Gelede

Wooden gelede headdress with white, red and indigo blue colours on the head and eyes, and designed with various lines and shapes

Skin Covered Wooden Headdress

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Skin covered human face headdress on a cane base. on its head are stud-like hair do

Wooden Flute

Local Name:Ogili

A wooden flute with a U-shaped mouth, at the mid-section are three circular incisions on an elongated base slightly curved on both sides.

Wooden FacemaskPurchased

Local Name:Isi-Omoba

A wooden facemsk painted black and white with pronounced hair line (ichi) marks on the forehead and by the sides of the ears, slited eyes pointed nose and dentition showing

Wooden Headdress

Local Name:Egungbebolaja

Wooden Headdress of four male conjoined headm each head naving oblong head, naturalistic facial features, flat nose, tribal markings and red paints around the neck region

Skin Covered Janus Wooden Helmet

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Janus face skin covered helmet mask with four human face, four horns and a hole in the middle of the head with feathers

Wooden Bowl

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Semi Circular hollowed wooden bowl with two flat projections and handle at the middle of the bond on a base.

Calabash RattlPurchasede

Local Name:Sekere OosGourda

Musical Instrument made of Clabash gourd and cowry

Wooden Gong

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Half moon shape wooden gong with geometric designs and handle

Wooden Double Barrel Drum

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A pair of wooden drum carved in cylindrical shaped with cane rope attached to the waist. the drum head is made of animal skin factored to the boby by a fibre

Tsoede Bronze Human Figure (Bowman)

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Standing Bronze Figure f a Tada warrior wearing a war garment with facial striation and shaped off hands

Terracotta Human Face

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Human Face with two vertical striation on the fore head and whisker=like marks on both cheeks

Wooden Drum

Local Name:Igede

An oval shaped single membrane wooden drum with narrow mouth. Attached to the membrane are strings of cane which ends up on the rings of cane at the middle of the drum

Native Guitar and Bow

Local Name:Gege

One string musical insrument called Goge made from Calabash and snake skin, played with bow made of curved metal

Igboukwu Snail Shell

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Wooden headdress with phallus-like hairdo, bulgy eyes, pointed nse, a pronounced dentition and three vertical and three horizontal tribal marks on both cheeks

Benin Bronze Ram Figure

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A bronze Ram object with open hole on the head

Wooden Lid

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Wooden animal representing a cat with a bead on the neck probably a lid of a box

Benin Bronze Plaque

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A plaque depicting a crocodile

Bronze Head

Local Name:Ife

Janus head with gagged mouth moulded on an oval stand one of the head wears a smooth facial look while the other wears a rough and warrior gesture

Terracotta Head

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A human head resting on a human palm. the head has sunken eyes and moustache

Bronze Ritual Pot

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A bronze pot with snake handle. on its body are representation of human and reptiles. the human and reptiles. the human figures with leg crossed, holding a staff on its right hand and charm on its left hand. the pot is decorated with generating lines

Bronze Pendant

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Leopard Head Pendant

Leopard Hip Ornament

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A metal oval shaped hip ornament depicting a leopard head with a snout, sharp teeth, slanted eyes, three raised lines depicting whiskers and ears. the lop is surrounded by swirls and button by metal loop. it is worn as costumes by the king and other chiefs at palace ritual

Calabash Rattle

Local Name:Apeiri Oba

Calabasth gourd with strings of beads tied around the neck to produce sound

Calabash Rattle

Local Name:Apeiri Oba

Calabash gourd with strings of beads tied around the neck to produce sound

Wooden Framed Mirror

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Mirror enclosed in a wooden rectangular frame which has geometric designs at the back, a loop on top and another loop at the end of the handle

A Pair of Wooden Spoons

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A pair of wooden spoons, each with handle decorated with open work carvings and geometric incisions

Mumuye Figure

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A standing wooden human figure with flappy ears, protruding naval and high feet.

Human Figure

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Nude human figure, with crest like body marks beside the ears and mid-back, naturalistic facial features, short neck, angle-like breasts, arms resting on the waist, big legs, standing on a round flat base.

Metal Rattle

Local Name:Aja

Metal Rattle with three pods

Bronze Stand

Local Name:National Museum, Lagos

Circular bronze stand with connecting geometric designs in the circumference.

Bronze Altar Ring

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Circular ring with representation of ram head casted on the circumference of the object. Altar ring are displayed on ancestral altars, dedicated to the Oba of Iyi'oba

Bronze Plaque

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A plaque with a human figure holding a staff. it has flower engraved on both sides of the figure

Bronze Armlet

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Heavily beaded arm with clinched fish. the object demonstrate Owo culture

Benin Bronze Altar Stand

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A Cylindrical altar ring with geometric designs and human figure. it has a hole at the centre.

Local Name:Bronze Head

Bronze head on a circular ring. on it is a casted human burst. the head wears knot representing keloids, bulgy eyes, flat nose and thick eyes with snake issuing from the sides of the cheek. the expression is that of Ogboni

Ritual Receptacle

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Receptacle on a container base with the King body coiled around the body. on the body is a face decorated with striation and geometric lines of the body of the base.

Bronze Leopard

Local Name:Benin

A bronze figure of a leopard standing on a base. the two ears raised, oval eyes, elongated nose with detailed dentition. six grid lines representing whiskers. in the rear is an elongated tail. leopard is a symbol of power, strength and authourity among the Benin kingdom

Human Head Pendant

Local Name:Igboukwu

Bronze human head with a rim and four layers of loops representing hairdo. it wears facial scarification, oval eyes, elongated flat nose and wide mouth. the object re-eniforce the Igbo tradition

Bronze Helmet

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A conical Helmet casted in portugese style, the body is documented with spot dots. the object reinforce the activities of the European traders.

Ivory Bowl

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A lidded bird receptacle standing on a square base

Bronze Pendant

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Bronze Pendant of a crocodile

Ogboni Figure

Local Name:Onile

Seated female shrine figure with two projection representing hairdo. the figure has bulgy eyes, broad nose and wide lips. the breast is flappy, while the hands are in greeting gesture of the Ogboni society

Ivory bowl

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Carved bowl on a circular stand. the bowl is decorated using cross hash geometric designs. the bowl is used to store palace items

Bronze Receptacle

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A mud fish Receptacle

Benin Bronze Leopard

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A spotless Benin Bronze Leopard

Ivory Armlet

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Ivory armlet with the motif of Portuguese human hand and inlay metals. it is worn by Oba of Benin during important celebrations

Benin Bronze Plaque

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A Plaque depicting a standing Oba of Benin. it has a cast flowers around the figure.

Ivory Box

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Lidded Ivory box with an engraved horse, the face and the rim of the box is decorated with geometric patterns

Chamba Headdress

Local Name:Chamba Headdress

A wooden buffalo headdress with two horns pulled backwards with gaping mouth.

Bronze Bell

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A bell that is surmounted by an elephant and it has geometric designs around the body. A part of the body is chipped off

Mumuye Figure

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A standing male figure with a crest on the head, flabby ears and high feet. it has red textile tied around the neck and the genital is pronounced

Metal Barrel

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A cylindrical barrel with handless human figure on top and a strap. it has geometric and human face designs round the body.

Queen Mother Head

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A bronze female head with incising lines, wearing a conical crown with cross metal geometrical designs. on the forehead are two keloids with four markings at both sides. the mask is decorated with brick lines representing beads. the figure is seated on a box with a geometric design

Terracotta Coiled Snake

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Terracotta coiled snakes with part of it chipped off

Benin Bronze Plaque

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Plaque depicting an intertwine mudfish, mudfish symbolizes power, transformation and royalty in Benin Kingdom

Terracotta head

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A human head with two knots on the frontal hairline and scarifications on the face.

Lidded Container

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Carved Ivory receptacle made of two sections held together by strips of brass. the relief decoration and inlaid work display typical Benin motifs like the heads of portuguese and interbase geometrical design of the base and rim of the box.

Bronze Bird

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Bronze representation as a bird standing on a flat rectangular base. on its body is a brick geometry to form feather. the expression connote calmness and homage to super powers.

Ivory Staff

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Carved in Human representation of Benin Oba standing on a base, the bottom of the staff is decorated with geometric designs

Ivory Gong

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Ivory double gong of triangular shape with oval section. main gong shows figure of an Oba with two attendant and on the other, two free standing figure carved on both sides of the mouth of the gong. it is used by the Oba of Benin during Ugie Enrobo rite