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PHOTOGRAPH:  Nobleman and Attendents.  Benin Kingdom.  Nigeria. 

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A high quality scan of a 1953 photograph taken by John V. Twyman.  The subject was a bronze relief plaque dating from the 16th Century AD depicting a nobleman with his high “choker” of coral beads and two attendents.  Kingdom of Benin, Southern Nigeria.

 

Unframed.

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