Guide to the Benin Collection at the Penn Museum - Kathy Curnow - Bog

This guide examines America's oldest collection of Benin art, and one of its least published. Ivory, brass, and wooden art from one of the greatest African precolonial states, the only sub-Saharan polity with 500 years of surviving art, are examined through contextual lenses that provide insight into the Edo people's creativity and world view.