Pauline von Hellermann<p>6/x If someone does cut down an <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Iroko" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Iroko</span></a> tree, the punishment can be terrible, specially if it is a sacred Iroko trees in a shrine. <br />This is what happened in 2018 to the people of Iguoma in Edo State (former <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/BeninKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BeninKingdom</span></a>), when the pastor cut down a sacred Iroko tree planted 500 years ago. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ThickTrunkTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThickTrunkTuesday</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://effiezy.com/2018/03/25/benin-residents-are-being-killed-by-a-sacred-iroko-tree-that-was-cut-by-a-pastor/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">effiezy.com/2018/03/25/benin-r</span><span class="invisible">esidents-are-being-killed-by-a-sacred-iroko-tree-that-was-cut-by-a-pastor/</span></a></p>
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Pauline von Hellermann<p>5/x So it was mostly forbidden to cut Iroko trees. In the <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/BeninKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BeninKingdom</span></a> (now Nigeria's Edo State), only the "Owina ne Igbesamwan", the Oba's woodworkers guild, was allowed to cut Iroko, the 'royal tree'. They carved pestles, mortars and beautiful wooden boxes like this one, currently in the collection of the University of Birmingham. It's one of the many, fascinating objects in the <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/DigitalBenin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DigitalBenin</span></a> collection - really worth a longer exploration! <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Wood" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Crafts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Crafts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Carving" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Carving</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://digitalbenin.org/catalogue/252_BIRRCD0084" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">digitalbenin.org/catalogue/252</span><span class="invisible">_BIRRCD0084</span></a></p>
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