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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 244

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gbon and caught the kingand plenty of his people. When they brought them Osogboa called Ahammangiwaand his boys, and asked them if they could put them in brass; they said we can try,so they did and those are they—then the king nailed them on the wall of his house.The other plaques are pictures of… … r^-i Tig. 268.—Bronze JEgis. 155 x 13!. (40 x 35 cm.) Liverpool Museum. first king put them—it has always been kept up ever since—it has fallen in now sincethe war. Ahammangiwa was a white man. In the time of Esemede, Overamis, thelate kings grandfather, white men named Ayniaju, the man without…

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