Part of a collection made by Hugh N Nevins, District Officer, Benin City, for the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Purchasd by the WHMM on 15 January 1929 for £2.13.4.
Commemorative head; made of terracotta. Head has tiered hairstyle, three inset scarification marks above eyes and impressed irises. Hole through centre of head.
The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum flimsy inventory card records: 'Head. Terra cotta, showing detail of headdress and necklet. Hole running through centre. 4" x 3 1/4". Found on the Benin Ancestral altars. (Neck missing). (The making of these heads is now virtually extinct).' See Collection File: Af1954,23.265-281.~Register 1954 Another [clay human head], neck broken off and features defaced.