Myers is interested in contrasting Victorian imagery of African despots collecting skulls, and the very real practice of anthropological collections of skeletal remains, which are still in contemporary European and American museums and universities. There are reportedly upwards of ten thousand skulls of African individuals in the possession of European museums today. Where the stories of King Ghezo and the Dahoman use of skulls in ritual contexts were widely publicized and documented—inspiring generations of writers and artists with lurid fantasies of brutality, savagery, and magic—the story of these skulls—collected in the thousands as ‘scientific’ trophies, no less magical, no less totemic—have at best been erased and at worst served to contrast the ‘science’ of the West with the ‘superstition’ of the continent. "My Head Belongs to the King" is a portrait of the skulls of six individuals whose remains languish in the storerooms of European museums—including the Museum of Nature Gotha, Berlin's Charite Hospital, and the Natural History Museum in London. They are blank canvases onto which numerous ideologies are imagined, contemporaries of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, who were erased so as to read European fantasies onto their bodies.