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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 235

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61) offersa further example, and so do the sistra in carvedivory. On the face of the larger bell is representedthe now well known group of a king or chief witha sort of Persian head-dress, with a harpoon-likeprojection, perhaps a degenerated fleur de lys,at the top. He is supported on both sides by… … Fig. 257.—Staff head(brass inlaid in copper).Length giin. (24 cm.) 1 In the figure of Ptah-Seker-Aiisar the body is ornamented by circles formed of dots, and thesarong by fish scale pattern very similar to that above described on the staff head (Walter Budge,The Mummy, London, 1894, P- 216). 222…

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