Benin Warriors

[fernando]

Thank you Tim
I am enchanted with the Salt cellar of th British Museum. In this one, the characters depicted are typical Europeans, with an European outfit and Weapons. In the Cellar from the Metropolitan Museum, the Characters look basically Africans, but maybe the man has an European influence, namely the shield and the sword ... which both picked my curiosity.
As for the European guys in these artifacts being specifically Portuguese, is never an hipothesis to abandon ... not that they look like me . I realize these questions are ideal for Scholars ... i don't even know if the term "European" was aplicable to the context. However sometimes, things are obvious, at least to experts, and there's no need to un-precise their provenance with generical origins , concealling their specific culture, for as less fashionable ( dominant ?) as it may be in present History.
Hi hope you will never hear saying that fish and ships are European
fernando