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English: Figure of a Hornblower   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
English: Figure of a Hornblower
Description
English: Blowing a horn or flute with his right hand, his left arm is truncated. He wears a netted cap with chevron design decorated with a feather. Around his neck are two collars: one of coral, the other of cowrie shells and teeth. He wears a kind of vest decorated with an interlocking design and supported by a strap around his neck. This is attached at the waist to a skirt which is drawn up at the side in a point. A belt is tied in a knot around the waist, and a lower belt with tassels connecting the skirt at the back. The over-skirt has a pattern of human faces, leopard faces, arms, half-moons, and other leaf forms. He wears five bracelets on his right hand. There is an undershirt exposed on the left side which has an interlocking design. The lower border of the outfit has a guilloche pattern. Condition: Generally good although the left arm is truncated just below the shoulder and the horn or flute is broken off at both ends. The tip of the feather on the cap is broken off, too. Judging from the surface which is remarkable in that it is free from corrosion products or patination, it has been kept mostly or entirely in protected places.
English: This figure probably stood on an altar dedicated to a deceased king, or oba. His conical hat and elaborately wrapped skirt with a projection on the left side all indicate that he is a court official. The necklace of leopard's teeth was worn only by warriors. The horn this figure once held is believed to have been a type called an erere, blown during ceremonial sacrifices. A motif on the figure's kilt depicting an elephant, whose trunk ends in a human right hand, identifies this work with the reign of the oba Esigie, thought to have ruled from 1504 to 1550.
Date
English: ca. 1500-1550
Dimensions 24 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 6 in. (62.2 x 21.6 x 15.2 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q632682
Current location
Arts of Africa collection South Gallery, 1st Floor
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Credit line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alastair B. Martin, the Guennol Collection
Notes
  • Culture: Benin, Edo State, Nigeria
  • Place made: Benin, Edo State, Nigeria
Source/Photographer Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum; Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.55.87_print_threequarter2_bw.jpg
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