Bronze figure of a ram. NO. 177 in the Sale Catalogue where it is described as follows : "A FINE BENIN BRONZE FIGURES OF A RAM, standing with elaborately chiselled curled horns, a roped band round the Head which has an aperture, and at one time a hinged lid, now missing : the hair on the shoulders, chest and long tail depicted by deeply grooved lines, 13 1/2 rare.
William Fagg illustrates an example in the Catalogue of Traditional Art of the British Colonies, June, 1949 pl. 10. (See illustration)"
The property of R. B. Allman, Esq., Taken by the late Dr. Allman, C.M.G., Principal Medical Officer, Southern Nigeria in the Benin Punitive Expedition1897.
Purchased by the Nigerian Government at a sale by Messrs. Sotheby & co. Bond Street, London on December 7th, 1953: Mr. W. B. Fagg, Assistant keeper, British Museum, acted for the Nigerian Government at the sale.