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Kingdom of Bronze
- 1977 ----- color ----- 53 min ----- 16mm
- (Tribal Eye series, Part 4) In 1897 a group of African bronzes arrived in London that caused a sensation. Many European experts refused to believe that the bronzesmiths of the obscure ancient African kingdom of Benin in Nigeria could have developed the sophisticated technique of bronze-casting by themselves. David Attenborough traces the bronzes and the "lost wax" technique back to the craftsmen of Ife, the sacred town of the Yoruba people, predating by a century any European influence.
- Topics: (Africa, Anthropology: Cultural, Art: History)
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