This question attracted a few candidates, most of who identified the illustrated figure
wrongly, and also located it wrongly in Ife, even with its obvious Benin art features.
The medium was also wrongly cited as clay.
Candidates were expected to respond to the question thus:
(a) Identification
Figure of Oba of Benin/Benin head
(b) Medium
Produced in bronze
(c)Function
Used as a sign ofroyal rank.
Used as ancestral figure to identify the oba.
Specially used for royal celebration.
Used to be placed on the royal ancestral shrines or altars as
ritual objects.
(d)Features
Life size head.
Naturalistic styl e.
High collar of coral (denoting royalty).
Heavily ornamented.
Eye widely opened.
Heavily beaded crown.
Prominent marks on the forehead.
Executed with the use of eire-perdue technique. |
