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Royal asen (commemorative altar) with bird
Hountondji guild artists
- Medium
- Brass, copper, seed pod(?)
- Dimensions
- H. 35 × W. 4 × D. 6 in. (88.9 × 10.2 × 15.2 cm)
- Culture
- Fon peoples
- Department
- The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
- Classification
- Metal-Sculpture
- Dated
- 19th century
- Pixels
- 2230 × 4000
- SHA-256
- 36ba59833e725974…
- Record
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License, verbatimCC0
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Hountondji guild artists. Royal asen (commemorative altar) with bird, 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.