Brass plate

Brass plate, richly embossed.The edge has seventeen motifs joined together and decorated with a series of small stitches. On the bottom stands out a fantastic figure with head, arms and hands, each holding an object. A long snake-shaped tail ends the figure and wraps it completely. The bottom is decorated with a flower and perhaps a fruit on the right, a fish and a snake on the left.
Old Calabar Cultural Area (European name of the state-city of Akwa Akpa), Efik ethnicity, South Nigeria