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And you don't know the country of origin/region?

not trying to be a wise azz but I don't know where to start looking.

bro, dont take my word for it but if that is supposed to be african, it may be a fake.

culled from: http://www.authenticafricanbronzesandceramics.com/


Bronze is an alloy of copper combined with other metals in order to make it more fusible or improve its mechanical and optical properties. Given its relatively low melting point, bronze is one of the oldest metal alloys used by man. Bronzes constitute therefore, together with ceramics, the oldest objects to be found on the antiques market.

Bronzes have always been produced by casting. Whatever an artist could do in antiquity with relatively primitive tools can be easily copied today by a technician with the sophisticated means and know-how at his disposal. Nearly all bronze statuary and even a number of objects of smaller dimensions were created by the lost-wax method. The clay model inside the statue testifies to the fact that the statue is a one-off and not an industrial copy.

Bronze has always been a rare and costly material in Africa. For this reason the wall thickness of statues was kept as small as possible. As a result the outer surface has roughly the same contours as the inner surface (photo Ife head). Copies and fakes have an almost smooth inner surface. In the case of large-scale Benin heads, the rule of thumb is that the smaller the metal wall thickness, the more antique the object.

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Who dey there? PhysicsQED, dem dey call you o. I no know wetin dey happen.

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