Hip-pendant Pendant Mask
21167A
Location: On Display in the Africa Galleries
From: Nigeria | Benin Kingdom
Curatorial Section: African
View All (9) Object Images
Add to My Finds +
Object Number
21167A
Current Location
Africa Galleries - On Display
Culture
Edo (Africa)
Provenience
Nigeria | Benin Kingdom
Date Made
18th century CE
Section
African
Materials
Copper Alloy
Technique
Lost Wax Casting
Description
Human face with high cheek bones, deep-set eyes, eight forehead marks, and and flared nostrals. An elephant eyes, earsm tusk and truck fill the space betwwen the nostrils and mouth. Elephant tusk extends from mouth to side of cheek, tusk terminates into a human hand holding a leaf, thumb resting on side of leaf. Large crack on side top left side of head, well defined hairline, square rosettes patterns on hair, seven cresent-shaped pods surrond head, crotals surround chin.
Length
17 cm
Width
11.2 cm
Credit Line
Gift of Henry Ling Roth, 1899
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
"Collections and Publications." Bulletin of the Free Museum of Science and Art II, No. 1. (1899): 39-50. See: p. 50
View related objects
Hall, Henry U. "Great Benin Royal Altar ." The Museum Journal 13, no. 2. (1922): 105-168. See: p. 126, fig. 49
View related objects
Coon, Carleton S. "Introduction ." The University Museum Bulletin XXI, no. 4. (1957): 2-4. See: p.2
View related objects
Plass, Margaret B. Seven Metals of Africa . The University Museum, 1959. See: F-3
View related objects
Curnow, Kathy. "Iyare! Splendor and Tension In Benin's Palace Theatre ." Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 50, no. 3. (2008): 39-41. See: p. 40
View related objects
Penn Museum. When in the World?/Calendar . University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2008.
View related objects
Curnow, Kathy. Iyare! Splendor and Tension In Benin's Palace Theatre . 2016. See: p. 112-113
View related objects
Curnow, Kathy. Guide to the Benin Collection at the Penn Museum . Philadelphia: Questor | UPMAA, 2024. Page/Fig./Plate: 132 See: p. 65, fig. 75
View related objects
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org .