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Great Benin; its customs, art and horrors (1903)

Roth, H. Ling (Henry Ling), 1854-1925 · Halifax, Eng., F. King & Sons, ltd. · leaf 233

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ral good castings of bronze cocks (fig. 254), the feathershaving apparently been afterwards chased to show the marks. There were also somevery large heads (fig. 85), so heavy that one man could hardly lift them ; there werealso large copper snake heads, with open mouth, showing teeth well executed,… … Fig. 255,—Bronze figures ofdwarfs, from a snapshot photographby Dr, Allman. simply clothed in drapery from shoulders to below the knees ; their weight was pro-bably about 60 to 70 lbs. each. A curious brass jug (fig. 256), now in the BritishMuseum, in form somewhat like the early English jug lately…

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