When the Olokun head was detected in Nigeria just a century ago by the German archaeologist Leo Frobenius, it could have told us a good understanding about a lost 14th-century African civilisation. But the artefact has finished up revelation us rather some-more about the mostly homely attitudes of the own.
Frobenius, who dug up the intent after bribing the supervisor of the dedicated site with a small total of income and a bottle of whiskey, believed he had found justification of a lost "white" African tribe. And alternative Western experts discharged the copper cut with a chisel as a forgery, arguing that a work of such worldly craftsmanship could not have been combined by the hands of presumably obsolete Africans. And in 1948 the British Museums experts didnt even hold it was authentic. The perspective was that the strange contingency have been smuggled out of Nigeria. But right away the British Museum has altered the perspective once again. It is right away believed that the Olokun is accurate after all.
In the light of this diligent history, the open should probably go and see the British Museums ultimate show, the Kingdom of Ife, and decider for themselves. And they would be well suggested to leave their preconceptions at the door.
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