Context (Related Documents)
Replacement catalogue card reads, in blue biro (date unknown, possibly 1980s): "1900 E. 98 (1) | AFRICA | [SOUTHERN struck through] / WEST AFRICA / NIGERIA / A PLAQUE in bold relief: a man standing against a diapered (punched) background. He wears a leather kilt, a plain round helmet, waist belt, neck rings, bangles etc. A horn is slung by a strap over the right shoulder, and the left hand grasps a dumb bell-like object. size 19" x 6"5 / King's Compound. Benin City / (see Read & Dalton Works of Art from Benin City) / F.J.H. Jenkinson M.A. | R1901 495"

In second hand, black ink: "(Centenary Exhibition)"

Red circular sticker on bottom right of card.
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

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Description (Labels & Markings)
The Webster stock number '6244' has been written on the object.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (Field collection)
Presumed taken from the palace of Oba Ovọnramwẹn Nọgbaisi during the British Colonial Military Campaign on Benin, February 1897, as Webster became the pre-eminent dealer in looted Benin material
Event Date 2/1897
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (Auction / Sale)
Webster, W.D. (1899). Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnological Specimens. European and Eastern Arms and Armour. Prehistoric and Other Curiosities, Vol. 3, No. 21.
Illustrated in unnumbered plate, figures 127-132. No. 21. Africa. 129. (6244). Bronze plaque with figure, 19-3/4 inches high, 6-3/4 inches broad. (Benin City) ₤15.15.0.
Event Date 1899
Author: rachel hand

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Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card notes: "A plaque in bold relief: a man standing against a diapered (punched) background. He wears a leather kilt, a plain round helmet, waist belt, neck rings, bangles etc. A horn is slung by a strap over the right shoulder, and the left hand grasps a dumb bell-like object."
Event Date 1900
Author: maa

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Context (Auction / Sale)
Purchased from William Downing Webster, a dealer in ethnography, with money donated to the Museum Accession Fund by Francis John Henry Jenkinson (1853-1923), University of Cambridge Librarian (1889-1923).

Event Date 1900
Author: Katrina Dring

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Context (Related Documents)
Accession Register reads: "B. Webster (Jenkinson) £15:15:0 See Webster Cat. No's 21. See Read and Dalton, Works of Art from Benin City, Journal of Anthropological Institute Vol. xxvii (1898) p.362"
Event Date 1900
Author: Katrina Dring

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Context (References)
Catalogue of MAA's Centenary Exhibition Ebin, V. and Swallow, D. A. (1984). The Proper Study of Mankind: Great Anthropological Collections in Cambridge. Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Event Date 1984
Author: rachel hand

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Context (Display)
Part of MAA's Centenary Exhibition, held in the Adeane gallery, at the Fitzwilliam Museum, 12 March- 6 May 1984, and the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, 2 July- 16 September 1984.

Event Date 12/3/1984
Author: rachel hand

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Context (Display)
Exhibited: On Display in Maudslay Gallery, CUMAA, from 1989.
Event Date 1989
Author: Katrina Dring

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Context (References)
Catalogue card reads "see Read and Dalton, Works of Art from Benin City,"


Event Date 2/6/2000
Author: maa

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Context (Amendments / updates)
Object numbered E 1900.98 but display label wrongly reads "E 1900.8" R.Hand 7/6/2001'.

['E 1900.8 is in fact a model house from Kenya. R. vd. Velden, 19/12/2016.']
Event Date 7/6/2001
Author: Remke Velden

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Context (Amendments / updates)
Purchased from W. D. Webster in 1900 with money donated to the Museum's Accession Fund by Francis John Henry Jenkinson (1853-1923), University Librarian from 1889.

Register gives the provenance as 'King's Compound, Benin City, 189-'.
Event Date 16/4/2015
Author: Rachel Hand

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Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2017.3694 | Remedial
Event Date 16/1/2017
Author: Kirstie Williams

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Context (Analysis)
In January 2017, Prof. Marcos Martinon-Torres and Agnese Benzonelli, UCL Institute of Archaeology, tested this item using a portable XRF as part of a programme of base metal analysis of Benin material. This object was tested twice and the results are as follows: 1) Cu: 83.93%; Zn: 11.41%; Sn: 1.87%; Pb: 1.90%. 2) Cu: 84.39%; Zn: 10.57%; Sn: 2.00%; Pb: 2.19.

It was noted that most plaques are thought to be cast 1550-1610 and that this one has relatively low Pb reading.
Event Date 26/1/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (References)
Photographed as part of the Art UK Sculpture project, August - September 2019. The project aims to create a free-to-access online photographic showcase of publicly owned sculpture. The three-year project focuses on sculpture dating from the last 1,000 years, held in public collections and outdoor locations across the UK
Event Date 4/6/2020
Author: Katrina Dring

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Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2022.5476 | Assessment Only
Event Date 31/10/2022
Author: Kirstie French

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Loan (Exhibition)
Fitzwilliam Museum (UCM), 25/7/2023 to 7/1/2024, Enslavement & Resistance: Cambridge & the Black Atlantic
Event Date 25/7/2023
Author: rachel hand