Mr Theophilus Umogbai, curator of National Museum Benin City, presents the cylindrical royal stools as very interesting objects in the collection of the museum. He said that the stool is a concept. The production of the stools he shows spans a period of two hundred years, from the reign of Ọba Esigie to Ọba Eresoyen. The first stool was a souvenir from the early Portuguese visitors and has features that relate to interactions with the Europeans, like the cross on its smooth surface. The second stool was commissioned by Ọba Eresoyen; its shape is almost exactly the same as the first, but the features are traditional motifs like aquatic animals and forest and cosmic symbols. The stools were made to be sitting stools for the Ọba of Benin. Another object of interest in the museum’s collections is the idiophone with a bird motif, popularly known as the Bird of Prophecy. The object is known as Anyamwe oro_ _in the Edo language. He describes the features of the bird before narrating how it became significant in the mythology of Benin Kingdom. The story of the bird is related to the Benin–Ida war and the prediction of disaster and defeat of the kingdom in which Oloi Idia n’Iye Ẹsigie defied and led the Benin army into victory. Lastly, he spoke about the horse rider known as the equestrian figure. He said the horse was not a common animal in Benin Kingdom. It was reported that Ọba Oronmiyan introduced horses into the kingdom because he came from the West. Horses were not bred locally because of the presence of tsetse flies, but when they were later introduced into Benin Kingdom, they were a privileged property of the Ọba of Benin.