Lower part of a wooden altar block, with circular socket in middle, with two crocodiles and mudfish on top, with the vertical front with carved antelope heads, hands, flasks and a human figure; used by chiefs.
Register 1948: "Wooden altar block, with circular socket in middle, with 2 crocodiles & mudfish on top, & the vertical front with carved antelope heads, hands, flasks, & a human figure. BENIN, NIGERIA." Register 1948 later addition: "[lower portion of a chief's altar of the hand, ikegobo (later completed by an upper portion in the Wellcome collection) (W.B.F.)]"