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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 243

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some fairly largequadrangular bells with the medallions and fine fish-scale pattern which were fresh.However, all the heads that I saw were of old make, I saw none with marks of freshfiring. Roupells officials did not include a bronze worker, but they gave him thefollowing account of the origin of… … Fig. 267.—Bronze Vase. Height 5^in. (14 cm.) but no children ; the king gave him plenty of boys to teach ; we can make brassworknow but not as he made it, because he and all his boys are dead. Before King Esigedied he sent one man named Inoyen to the white mans country with some whitemen ; he…

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