Head of Royal Benin bronze altar.
This head is surmounted by a bronze horn too, but that may be ivory.
One of the specificity of the ancestral altars heads is the head commemorative head chef marked by the insignia carefully reproduced as a holder of high rank.
It was at the head are presented as the sacrifices and offerings, it is she who is thanked for the welfare of the faithful. For the head, the altar of the head has a very intimate sense, why it is placed inside the house. The ancestral altar by cons is in the first room, one that is available to foreigners. Sitting on the ancestral altar, the head becomes the public manifestation of the capacity of chief survive and prosper.crackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrack