50 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
description of this part of the city :—‘ Entering from the direction of Ologbo, 
through a grass avenue flanked with bush, a few houses are seen on the left; 
these run well back into the bush. . . . Houses then straggle on, on 
the left side, till high red-clay walls are encountered, with a galvanised-iron 
roof sloping outwards from the northern wall. This is the main entrance of 
the King’s compound. In this compound, or village, are the Juju compounds, 
Palaver House, King’s House, and many houses for the King’s immediate 
followers, and the Juju priests. It was in these Juju compounds that the 
main sacrifices were carried out. beat 
“These spaces were about a hundred and fifty yards long and about 
fifty broad, surrounded by a high wall and covered with a short brown grass. 
At one end was a long shed running the whole breadth of the enclosure, and 
under this was the altar. The altar was made by three steps running the 
whole length under the shelter of the shed; slightly raised for some distance 
in the centre, on which raised portion were handsomely carved ivory tusks 
placed on the top on very antique bronze heads; beside the tusks, were carved 
clubs, undoubtedly for use upon the victims of the sacrifice.” “Their blood, 
according to Sir R. Moor, “ was subsequently smeared over the altar, and 
allowed to run down the steps in front.” 
“ Behind these main Juju compounds lay the Palaver House and the King’s 
House, side by side. The former a large oblong building, with a roof run- 
ning over the side and end walls, leaving the centre open. The roof was of 
galvanised-iron, and down the south portion of it, ran a huge bronze serpent 
with a most forbidding looking head. Red mud seats ran round the walls, for 
the use of the Chiefs taking part in the palaver. The doors were covered 
with stamped brass, as were also portions of the woodwork of the roof. 
The King’s House was almost identical, but smaller, and had rooms leading 
off it. The archway, over the King’s sleeping place, was decorated roughly 
with stamped brass and squares of looking glass. . . .” 
These tusk-holders, as may be seen in the illustration, are in the form of 
human heads attired in a head-dress, which is a net-work of coral beads, set 
off on the sides with rosettes of others of a different sort, and of larger size, 
and by a specially large cylindrical pair right and left of the central line, and 
a single central pendant in front. Hanging down over the collar, before and 
behind the ears, are half a dozen strings of coral, and round the back of the head, 
where hair should he represented (were the head not to all appearance shaved) ; 
reaching only to the upper margin of the collar, are ten more strings of the 
same precious material. Separating the short back strings from the longer 
side ones, is a braid, of the same length as the side strings, of what I suppose 
to be hair. Encireling the neck as high as the lower lips, are thirty-one 
coral ropes, forming the collar more than once already mentioned as the 
insignia of a high dignitary. 
On the face may be observed his tribal marks, consisting of three raised 
weals over the outer corners of each eye, and of two long perpendicular lines 
running down the front of the forehead above their inner corners. These 
last probably represented tattooing on the brow of the ordinary sort, as 
it is represented by bands of iron, ingeniously let into the metal during 
the casting. In the same way the pupil of the eye is formed by a round 
dise of iron. The whole figure has been very carefully chiselled over, and 
when it was newly finished, there is little doubt that the steel blue tattoo 
lines, and the glistening pupils gave to the face and eyes a very life-like 
appearance. Beneath the eyes a series of small round rings have been 
punched. 
The projecting circular flange of the base, whose edge is finished ina 
braided rim, has depicted on it, a series of symbolic and fetish emblems, on a 
field of an open—or unstranded—string pattern. From the centre of the flange 
