This highly-stylised head is adorned with rosettes of large, conical pearls located just above the ears, with strings of pearls hanging down from the head cap in front of behind those ears. A single, central pearl hangs from the middle of the forehead, while three bulging protrusions are affixed on either side of it, most likely meant to represent decorative scars. The neck is bedecked with numerous coral necklaces that ascend all the way up to the mouth, widely interpreted as indications of the subject's importance and affluence. The wings affixed to the sides of the pearl cap are highly controversial (for more information, see the text that accompanies the following head).

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum

Felix von LUSCHAN: Die Altertümer von Benin, Band 1-3, Berlin 1919, Tafel 59.

Till Förster: Kunst in Afrika, Köln 1988, S. 104.

British Museum, London

William B. FAGG: Bildwerke aus Nigeria, München 1963, S. 45.

W./ B. FORMAN, Philip DARK: Die Kunst von Benin, Prag 1960, S. 71.

Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden

Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig

Kunst aus Benin. Afrikanische Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Hans Meyer, Grassimuseum, Leipzig 1994, S. 55.

The Perls Collection in The Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York

Kate EZRA: Royal Art of Benin. The Perls Collection in The Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York 1992, S. 36.

Museum für Völkerkunde, Wien/ Slg. G. Haas

Armand Duchateau: Benin. Kunst einer afrikanischen Königskultur, München 1995, S. 50.

Museum für Völkerkunde, Wien/ Slg. W. D. Webster

Barbara PLANKENSTEINER (Hg.): Benin. Könige und Rituale. Höfische Kunst aus Nigeria, Wien 2007, S. 374.

Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden

René S. Wassing: Die Kunst des Schwarzen Afrika, Stuttgart 1977, S. 179.

Lindenmuseum, Stuttgart

Philip J. C. DARK: An introduction to Benin art and technology, Oxford 1973, Tafel 27.