Catalogue card notes: "Rough bronze mask. Tribalmarks over each eye. Marks [pen drawing] beside lips Wears head-dress and small beard. The eyes are unusually large."
Catalogue card reads, in black ink: "25.68 | Benin / West Africa / Rough bronze mask. Tribalmarks over eyes. Marks [diagram in pen] beside lips. Wears head-dress and small beard. The eyes are unusually large. / Exhibitedby Donor at Brit. Empire Exhib. at Wembley 1924"
In January 2017, Prof. Marcos Martinon-Torres and Agnese Benzonelli, UCL Institute of Archaeology, tested this idno using a portable XRF as part of a programme of base metal analysis of Benin material. The object was tested twice and the results are as follows: 1) Cu: 63.897%; Zn: 17.65%; Sn: 5.67%; Pb: 12.16%. 2) Cu: 63.62%; Zn: 17.86%; Sn: 66.11%; Pb: 11.74%. It was noted that Pb-rich alloy appears in patches on the sides of the eyes, towards the back as though it may have been soldered onto something else however this is hard to determine.
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Catalogue card reads "Exhibited by donor at British Empire Exhibition at Wembley 1924"