IDNO
Doc.511
Description
Correspondence relating to acquisitions from Benin City, primarily between MAA staff and dealers including W.D. Webster and W.O. Oldman.
Place
Africa; West Africa; Nigeria; Edo State; Benin City | Europe; Northern Europe; United Kingdom; England; Cambridge
Source
Date
1897-1923
Keywords
Accessions; Anthropology; Objects; Museum History
Author
Doggett, Thomas Frederick; Webster, William Downing; Jenkinson, Francis John Henry; Webster, Robert Burrow; Washington, George; Oldman, William Ockleford; Gossett, Matt; Lawrence, C.T. (Major); Duckworth, Winfred Lawrence Henry (Professor)
Events
Context (Amendments / updates)
Digitised as part of the Conested African Heritage at MAA project, supported by a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant, by Meghan Mills-Amissah, 2022.
24/04/2023
Created by: Mark Elliott on 24/04/2023
Context (Found together / assemblage)
These letters were previously stored in uncatalogued incoming correspondence boxes and von Hügel’s correspondence re: acquisitions. They were collated under a single archive reference on 24 April 2023 to make them more accessible and retrievable.
24/04/2023
Created by: Mark Elliott on 24/04/2023
Description (Physical description)
Correspondence relating to acquisitions from Benin City, primarily between MAA staff and dealers including W.D. Webster and W.O. Oldman.
24/04/2023
Created by: Mark Elliott on 24/04/2023
FM:260329
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