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[image] (NOT ACTUAL IMAGE) |
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Palace plaque, brass, 16th-17th century - Displayed in Gallery Halls
- Possibly from a compound dedicated to King Ewuare (mid 15th cen.)
- Leopard Imagry (importance?)
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Palace altar to King Ovonramwen, carieties of items & materials, 1888-97 - Monarchy reinstated in 1914
- Each oba makes and maintains a shrine for his father.
- Ruler sometimes depicted.
- Tusks carved with life-events of deceased oba.
- **Lineage, sacred ties of power.
- White of the tusks associated with purity, power, and the sea (Olokun)
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Ivory pendent mask of Queen Mother Idia, ivory, c. 1520 Iconography: -Representation of the Portugese -mudfish, in water and on land, transformation qualities. -Iron strips above eyes, substance of power and importance |
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- Came to Benin from Ife
- Son, Eweke I was the first oba of the second dynasty. (c.1200-present)
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Benin King. =earth and life |
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Introduced the plan of Benin City. 19th Century. - Palace compund, artisans placed near the king (they have "special powers")
- Queen Mother outside the wall because the QM and king aren't to have any contact.
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orisha (god) of the sea Represented in Benin imagry. |
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Connecting worlds, doors and portals. Notion of a doorway and liminal space (a threshhold). **this is what I had in my notes, if either of you have a better definition, let me know! |
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"bird of destiny" Benin imagry. |
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| significance of brass and coral |
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- Supposed to make the workds of the king come true.
- piece of coral= the words of the Oba
- Symbollic meaning & trade with the Portugese.
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dedicated to a deceased oba. - place for offerings
- represent royal lineage.
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