Given to the donor at Asaba, southern Nigeria in 1903 by a Colour Sergeant of the Southern Nigeria Regiment. Collected during a military expeditionagainst the so-called Ekumeku (lit. 'the silent ones') a resistance faction formed of various southern Nigerian states opposed to the imposition of British colonial rule and its policies.
Sculpture, head; lost-wax cast in brass. Human head with tiered hairstyle and cat's whisker markings at sides of mouth. Wears deep beaded collar. Hole in top of head.
See Collection File: Af1948,18.1 (includes note from A G Coles in the Christy Correspondence).~Register 1948: Bronze head, miniature, with hole in crown, a deep collar representing bead necklaces.