. Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums. CAST-METAL WORK FROM BENIN. 53 III. The next specimen, Fig. i (Register number: 9 / .5) is a small female flexure, cast in the solid (the limbs truncated in the haste of looting). Her head- dress consists of a coral bead cap, surmounted by a fore-and-aft cjest of bead and brass-work, with coral-string pendants. She wears the stiff coral collar up to her lips, indicative of high rank. The shouMers and tops of the arms are clad in an open net-work covering, the short loin-cloth being of the same. Figs. 5 and 6.—Frost and Side View of Statuette of a Nati
. Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums. CAST-METAL WORK FROM BENIN. 53 III. The next specimen, Fig. i (Register number: 9 / .5) is a small female flexure, cast in the solid (the limbs truncated in the haste of looting). Her head- dress consists of a coral bead cap, surmounted by a fore-and-aft cjest of bead and brass-work, with coral-string pendants. She wears the stiff coral collar up to her lips, indicative of high rank. The shouMers and tops of the arms are clad in an open net-work covering, the short loin-cloth being of the same. Figs. 5 and 6.—Frost and Side View of Statuette of a Native WITH Flint-Lock in his Hand. material. The latter is suspended by four-ply strings of beads from thigh to hip, passing over the shoulders, and intercrossing on the breast and back. The body is elsewhere nude, and shows deeply incised tattoo lines down from the breasts to meet in the umbilicus, and four others longitudinally along the sides of the abdomen. In her right hand she carries an up-lifted fly-flapper, or fan, while her left arm, carried against the chest (but not well-dehned in the block) has the flst closed, and the thumb Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Forbes, H.
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