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CAST-METAL WORK FROM BENIN. a: 
IIL The next specimen, Fig. 4 (Register number: 21.12.97.5)is a small female 
figure, 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 crest of bead 
and brass-work, with coral-string pendants. She wears the stiff coral collar 
up to her lips, indicative of high rank. The shoulders and tops of the arms 
are clad in an open net-work covering, the short loin-cloth being of the same 

Fics. 5 AND 6.—FRont AND SIDE VIEW OF STATUETTE OF A NATIVE 
witH Furnt-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 wmbilicus, 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-defined in 
the block) has the fist closed, and the thumb erect. — 
