Part of a collection made by Hugh N Nevins, District Officer, Benin City, for the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Purchased by the WHMM on 15 January 1929 for £3.0.0.
The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum index card records: 'Head. Terra cotta, showing detail of headdress and necklet; hole running through centre. 5 3/4" high x 3 3/4" diameter. Found on the Benin Ancestral altars. (Piece missing from back of head.) (The practice of making these heads is now virtually extinct).' See Collection File: Af1954,23.265-281.~Register 1954 Another [clay human head] similar [to Af1954,23.273], back of the head damaged, facial features worn, hair arrangement slightly different.