Statue and fetishes with Bénin and Nigeria

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From Bénin

With Béninthere was habit to decapitate the kings defeated and to then give their head to Oba (representing gods on ground), this one transmitted it to the royal bronze founders. One ran the heads only those which had offered sharpest resistance. of or the representation of head of ifé