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METPublic domain
Altar Ring
Lower Niger Valley caster
- Date
- 16th century
- Type
- Altar ring
- Medium
- Copper alloy
- Department
- The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
- Culture
- Yoruba peoples, Ife group
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Object number
- 1976.239
- Credit
- Rogers Fund, 1976
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