British Museum · Ground floor, Rooms 24 to 27, and lower floor Room 25

4Africa, Oceania and the Americas

The Benin Bronzes, the Easter Island statue Hoa Hakananai'a, and Aztec and Maya works including the turquoise serpent.

In This Area

Hoa Hakananai'a

Hoa Hakananai'a

About 1000 to 1200

Ground floor, Room 24 (Living and Dying)

The Benin Bronzes

The Benin Bronzes

Guild of brass casters of Benin, Sixteenth to seventeenth century

Ground floor, Room 25 (Africa)

Double-Headed Serpent

Double-Headed Serpent

Fifteenth to early sixteenth century

Ground floor, Room 27 (Mexico)