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Oba with Animals
View through The Met
Brass, Edo peoples
Rights: Public Domain
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Rogers Fund 1996 (1996.11)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls 1991 (1991.17.113)
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