Bracelet of Benin With Woman

Bracelet of the Kingdom of Benin featuring four women of notables in the typical costume of their era of splendor. Two of them with a scepter in their left hand, possibly real, and two other women with the fan worn by women belonging to the nobility. He is part of a pair of bracelets, representing a woman and a man, intended to be worn by a remarkable woman or the Court. Belonged to the wife of an engineer who worked in the port of Cotonou, an important city in today's Benin, formerly Dahomey, in the middle of the century XXBrown patina that indicates its antiquity.