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Description: | Modern copy of the second stage of the brass casting process used in Ancient Benin to make wall plaques, which hung in the king’s palace to record historical events. This stage is destroyed in the plaque making process and is not normally seen.
Wax covered cast with no detail, in wooden base.
caption: General view of object no. HC.1999.938.3. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | clay wood plaques Edo wax stage of manufactures (metalworking: casting) Beni Amer Africa Ezomo Agban plaques (art) castings (art) Health and Healing | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-11426 | Go to resource |
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