A Nigerian carved bust of Queen Victoria, in a light coloured soft wood (funtumia species?), on a black wooden plinth. A similar sculpture is in the Pitt Rivers Museum, made in Lagos, Nigeria, by the Yoruba people.

This carving was likely based on a Golden Jubilee photograph of Queen Victoria, copies of which were widely disseminated across the British sphere of influence in West Africa in 1887. The photographs were displayed in the offices of British administrators and given as gifts to local rulers. The enlargement of the head and the youthful face are typical of Yoruba carving, intended to indicate the serenity and wisdom of the subject.