Benin Warriors

fernando · 27th June 2006, 10:37 PM

Thank you Tim
I am enchanted with the Salt cellar of th British Museum. In this one, the characters depicted are typical Europeans, with an European outfit and Weapons. In the Cellar from the Metropolitan Museum, the Characters look basically Africans, but maybe the man has an European influence, namely the shield and the sword ... which both picked my curiosity.
As for the European guys in these artifacts being specifically Portuguese, is never an hipothesis to abandon ... not that they look like me

. I realize these questions are ideal for Scholars ... i don't even know if the term "European" was aplicable to the context. However sometimes, things are obvious, at least to experts, and there's no need to un-precise their provenance with generical origins , concealling their specific culture, for as less fashionable ( dominant ?) as it may be in present History.
Hi hope you will never hear saying that fish and ships are European

fernando

Tim Simmons · 27th June 2006, 11:23 PM

These are wonderful things. I feel sure the figures are of Europeans. Look at the ladies costume, also one has to bare in mind that the depictions are seen through another culture so some abstraction most be accepted. I have some pictures of slightly latter silver salts made in Europe, of basically similar form.

27th June 2006, 10:37 PM	#1
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	Thank you Tim I am enchanted with the Salt cellar of th British Museum. In this one, the characters depicted are typical Europeans, with an European outfit and Weapons. In the Cellar from the Metropolitan Museum, the Characters look basically Africans, but maybe the man has an European influence, namely the shield and the sword ... which both picked my curiosity. As for the European guys in these artifacts being specifically Portuguese, is never an hipothesis to abandon ... not that they look like me . I realize these questions are ideal for Scholars ... i don't even know if the term "European" was aplicable to the context. However sometimes, things are obvious, at least to experts, and there's no need to un-precise their provenance with generical origins , concealling their specific culture, for as less fashionable ( dominant ?) as it may be in present History. Hi hope you will never hear saying that fish and ships are European fernando Last edited by fernando; 27th June 2006 at 11:23 PM.

27th June 2006, 11:23 PM	#2
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,925	These are wonderful things. I feel sure the figures are of Europeans. Look at the ladies costume, also one has to bare in mind that the depictions are seen through another culture so some abstraction most be accepted. I have some pictures of slightly latter silver salts made in Europe, of basically similar form.