Sgabello: OBA con le gambe di Mudfish (Agba) popoli Edo del 19th secolo alle sue origini, la città-stato centralizzato del Benin è stata fondata da popoli di lingua Edo. I resoconti degli storici ufficiali della corte e le descrizioni fornite dai visitatori evocano un vibrante centro culturale continuamente ridefinito dalla sua leadership attraverso lo spostamento delle dinamiche di potere interne ed esterne. Secondo la tradizione orale, circa il 1300, i capi Edo sono reputati per aver raggiunto il leader del vicino Ife, Oranmiyan, per stabilire una nuova dinastia reale divinamente sancita. Da allora, l'investitura dei governanti del Benin al titolo o

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Stool: Oba with Mudfish Legs (Agba) 19th century Edo peoples At its origins, the centralized city-state of Benin was founded by Edo-speaking peoples. The accounts by official court historians and descriptions provided by visitors evoke a vibrant cultural center continually redefined by its leadership through shifting internal and external power dynamics. According to oral tradition, circa 1300, Edo chiefs are reputed to have reached out to the leader of neighboring Ife, Oranmiyan, to establish a new divinely sanctioned royal dynasty. Since then, the investiture of Benin’s rulers to the title of obas has conferred upon them at once a role of chief priest officiating in important religious ceremonies and presiding over an elaborate structure of palace officials. During the fifteenth century reign of Oba Ewuare, Benin’s armies were formed and the fortification of its capital with a massive wall undertaken. In parallel, delegations of Portuguese traders assiduously sought to secure exclusive commercial treaties with this leader of the region’s most powerful polity. At its height in 1500, Benin’s authority extended to the Niger delta in the east and to the coastal lagoon of Lagos in the west. Its major exports of pepper, textiles, and ivory were exchanged for copious quantities of imported metals. This access to an influx of brass led to an explosion of creativity by court artists who transformed it into works for the palace ranging from ancestral portraits, positioned on royal altars, to decorative plaques depicting the oba, his courtiers, and foreign interlocutors. From the earliest such exchanges, those Europeans commissioned exquisite ivory artifacts from Edo carvers for princely collections back home.For nearly five hundred years, Benin’s independent leaders firmly established the terms of engagement with Portuguese, Dutch, and French agents and effectively represented their own interests. Despite the demands of the Atlantic Slave trade, for centuries they