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TheAfricaTNSY
Member # 21727
posted
12. April 2014
07:45 PM
http://bildarchiv.frobenius-katalog.de/hzeig.FAU?sid=C4CC7894213&dm=1&ind=6&zeig=Benin+City
the locks of the royal palace were more elaborate (and I think the nobles had these types too)
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=621900&partId=1&searchText=edo+lock&page=1
"A variety of brass keys are still used to lock palace rooms where valuable objects such as the king's regalia are stored. They are also employed to secure palace shrines, and especially those large quadrangles - only one of many still exists - more publicly accessible and that contain carved ivories, staffs"
TheAfricaTNSY
Member # 21727
posted
12. April 2014
07:57 PM
this is how an house looked like
Edo chiefs captured by the British in front of a traditional Benin City house
Tukuler
Member # 19944
posted
12. April 2014
08:44 PM
Excellent research! We've been missing
African Studies elements like these for
a long while now on ES.
Sundjata
Member # 13096
posted
25. April 2014
05:46 PM
^Indeed!
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