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38 Antique Works of Art from Benin.

DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XIX.

111. Bronze a chief with attendants his
Fig. segis, representing standing holding up
hands in a manner similar to Figs. 76-78, Plate XII, and Figs. 167 and
168, Plate XXVIII. Frogs between the feet. Cylindrical spikes on head-
dresses.
112. Bronze
Fig. segis, representing man on horseback to left, wearing single-edged
sword with A ranseur of the sixteenth or seventeenth in
guard. century
down. The hair is and combed out, and
right hand, point straight may
a white man. The chain bridle is held in left hand.
probably represent up
Small crotals with chains hang from the eyelets on the edge of the segis.
Pattern of fish-scales on ground similar to that on the brass bell, Fig. 73,
Plate XII, and elsewhere.
Figs. 113 and 114. Bronze plaque, representing a figure standing; long spear,
multibarbed, with ogee-sectioned blade in right hand, pointing downwards,
knob at butt end. There are twelve ducts running from the ground of the

plaque to the shaft of the spear. In left hand a broad leaf-shaped sword,
with a attached to like
ring pommel, Figs. 4, 13, 114, 131, 254, 255, &c.
Dress like a and of of coral, with
nightshirt, composed apparently strings
bare arms. Dagger or short sword on left side. Quadrangular bell on
neck; teeth necklace; coral choker, badge of rank. Head-dress of metal,
in form a Six rosettes on
[somewhat resembling grenadier cap. groin id,
and leaves incised.
quatrefoil