Benin Bronzes

Bring Them Home: Benin Art, Universal Museum and Artifact Repatriation Nigeria, the Giant of Africa, earned its title in terms of its geographic size, population size and economic growth. It is also popular for producing a vast majority of West-African art. According to Shyllon (1998), of all the countries south of the Sahara, Nigeria dominates in the production of sculptured antiquities as it possesses nine-tenths of sculptures aged at greater than a century. The ancient city of Benin in Southern Nigeria has been revered as a source of bronze and ivory sculptures so elegantly crafted that Meyerowitz (1943) describes them as technically perfect. However, after the Benin Massacre and artifact looting of 1897, thousands of these sculptures were…

Benin is a country in West Africa. The official name of the country is the Republic of Benin. As of 1 January 2017, the population of Benin was estimated to be 11,324,032 people. The Benin Republic is a West African country on the Gulf of Guinea. Bordered by Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger and Nigeria. The official language of Benin is French. They use other indigenous languages such as Fon and Yoruba The largest religious group in Benin is Roman Catholicism, followed closely by Islam, Vodun and…

The absolute location of French Guinea is 4 north and 53 west. It is located to the left and above Brazil, and to the right of Surinam. It is slightly larger than Indiana with a population of 277,316 people, in 1950 it was only 25,479. Guyana has 3 main types of transport; normal buses, Air links, and taxi boats. The average year round temperature is 85° Fahrenheit. The people of French guinea are new world Native American, African, and European descent, and some Asian, like most of North and…

Imagine you are an international student studying in France and your French is limited to the classroom conservations. I am sure you will be frightened and anxious. Fortunately, you have a friend studying in France that is bilingual. He or she helps you navigate the system. You are now happy and ready to tackle your education. Well this is similar to the story of my best friend and I. I am from the Republic of Benin in West Africa and the official language is French. I completed my elementary,…

According to BBC, the kingdom of Benin started in the 900s when the Edo individuals settled in the rainforests of West Africa. By the 1400s they had made a well off kingdom with a powerful ruler, known as the Oba. The Obas lived in palaces decorated with shining brass. Continuously, the Obas won more land and developed an empire. They additionally began exchanging with dealers from Europe and with other African kingdoms. Rather than utilizing cash they traded merchandise, for example, brass…

Lie, a leading conservation expert and director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at Harvard University, reported that the inlaid right eye, copper lips, and nipples are consistent with classical Greek bronze statues, and “[s]uch details indicate the care of manufacture, and offer a rare opportunity to view the original appearance of a high-quality classical bronze statue.” Northover of Oxford’s Department of Materials analyzed the left hand and forearm, the right upper…

that the Hopkins Kylix was produced near the Southern or Eastern portions of the island, the unknown provenance of other comparanda makes it faulty to apply this conclusion immediately to 737 (Semitic Museum No. 1995.10.593). Nevertheless, the undeniable similarities between 737 and its comparanda, potentially indicate a major role of these kylikes in Cypriot Iron Age society. The apparent similarities in shape between 737 and its comparanda may indicate a common source for all Cypro-Geometric…

Anglo Saxon weapons and armour In this research paper you will be reading about the history of a few weapons and armour such as axes, swords, spears, shields, maces, and armour. Anglo saxon means the people who lived in the general vicinity of england and some of the germanic areas and Im pretty sure you know what armour and weapons are, so I will just get to it. The first subject will be swords or “sweord” in old english it originated during the bronze age which is around 1600 B.C., the sword…

their sex, age, any trauma, and/or disease as well as the colonial periods which they were associated. For this study, I will use only individuals from the Greek colonial period; 28 adult (Table 2) of which 17 are females and seven are males (Table 3). Apollonia. From the beginning of Albanian archaeology Apollonia was an important site which produced many of the country’s greatest archaeological finds (Ceka, 2005:15). The skeletal remains from Apollonia were recovered from 2002 through…

Bronze, plaster, copper, or marble the sculptures dispersed throughout the campus stand as a symbol of pride for the campus and bring unspeakable beauty throughout. When walking along the campus you can see many different types of art and observe many differ artists work. As you walking past Parks Library though one piece stands out among others. The Left Sided Angel, a cast bronze sculpture made by Stephen De Staebler brought to Iowa State University in 1986 commissioned by phi kappa phi honors…