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RARE BUT TYPICAL IFE BRONZE HEAD

The Bronze Head from Ife, or Ife Head,[2] is one of eighteen copper alloy sculptures that were unearthed in 1938 at Ife in Nigeria, the religious and former royal center of the Yoruba people. It is believed to represent a king. It was probably made in the fourteenth-fifteenth century C.E..[1] The realism and sophisticated craftsmanship of the objects challenged Western conceptions of African art. The naturalistic features of the Ife heads are unique[3][1] and the stylistic similarities of these works "suggest that they were made by an individual artist or in a single workshop