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An artist from this country sculpted a larger-than-life statue of Elizabeth II placing her hands on her lap. That artist from this country painted a portrait of a princess in a blue dress wearing a turban that was considered lost until being discovered in a London flat in 2017. A culture in this country that sculpted hollow, terracotta figures with triangular eyes (15[1])was described by Bernard Fagg. While searching for Atlantis (15[1])in this (-5[1])country, Leo (*) Frobenius discovered giant heads crafted using the lost-wax method. The heads of merchants and mudfish line the collar of an ivory portrait mask from this country depicting the queen mother Idia. During an 1893 punitive expedition, hundreds of brass plaques were looted from this country, some of which depict rulers named oba. (-5[1])For 10 points, the Ile-Ife heads were made in which country from which the British looted the Benin Bronzes? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Federal Republic of Nigeria (The unnamed artist is Ben Enwonwu, and his painting of the princess is Tutu.)
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