bell; conical body; lower edges curved; small band of relief designs at top; small relief ornament on one side; band loop at top; slender iron clapper; Dimensions: H = 16.2 cm; 6 3/8"
Chief Ine of the brassworkers identified this bell as coming from Uhen, a village on the Edo - Yoruba border (The Art of Benin (Dark) exhibition catalog, p.73)
Courtesy of: C. J. Philipp. (c) Field Museum of Natural History. CC BY-NC 4.0. https://mm.fieldmuseum.org/c51cd74d-c343-4981-979c-93cc7acdf27d (accessed on 11 Oct 2021)
Courtesy of: C. J. Philipp, J. W. Kennedy. (c) Field Museum of Natural History. CC BY-NC 4.0. https://mm.fieldmuseum.org/df89732c-1aaa-43b6-80e9-2410bc92d92d (accessed on 13 Jan 2022)