Lesson Benin Art

Ife 1100-1300 CE
Benin Art c1400-1800 CE
Meaning and Iconography

Ife, Oba Figure 10th-12thC bronze/brass 18in	Modern Day Zaire, King in Full Regalia
Ife, Oba Figure 10th-12thC bronze/brass 18in	Ife, King Olokun 11th-15thC brass 36" (Divinity of Sea and Wealth)
	Benin, General and Officers, c1550 brass 21in Benin, Leopard 16th-18thC 19in

	Mudfish Stool (above) Benin, Rattle Staff (at Left) Go between land and water just like Olokon who mediates between the heaven and earth. Edmund Leach Life-size groups of royal figures in mud are still made for the cult of Olokun, divinity of the sea and of wealth. Oni or Obas in the Yoruba culture are still buried today seated on stools.