Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in white ink: '13751', presumably a Stevens Stock Number.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Field collection)
Taken during the British Colonial Military Campaign on Benin, February 1897
Event Date 1897
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card reads, in blue biro: "1902 E 97-99 | AFRICA | WEST AFRICA / NIGERIA / Three human MASKS of brass with reticulated headdess (two decorated with rosettes, one open pattern), tribal marking over he eyes and coral frontal beads. In one the pupils of the eyes are inlaid with iron. / 7" x 4.7", 7.2" x 4.4", 8" x 4.3" / Benin, West Africa 1897 Expedition. / purchased Stevens / Professor Bevan's donation | R. 1903 256-258"

Red circular sticker in bottom right of card.
Event Date 1902
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Other owners)
E 1902.93 - E 1902.115 are annotated in the Register as 'B. Stevens *Prof Bevan' indicating they were purchased at an undated 1902 auction at J.C. Stevens saleroom, 38 King Street Covent Garden, London, with money donated to the Museum’s Accessions Fund by Prof. Anthony Ashley Bevan.
Event Date 1902
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Field collection)
E 1902.94 - E 1902.115 are recorded in the Accession Register as acquired on the 'Benin, West Africa 1897 Expedition’
Event Date 1902
Author: Rachel Hand

Description (Labels & Markings)
Old museum label affixed to object: '1902.97. Bronze mask. Benin, West Africa. * Professor Bevan'.
Event Date 1902
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for E 1902.97-99: 'Three human masks of brass with reticulated headdress (two decorated with rosettes, one open pattern), tribal marking over the eyes and coral fronted bands. In one the pupils of the eyes are inlaid with iron.'
Event Date 1902
Author: maa

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.
Event Date 27/1/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2022.5450 | Remedial
Event Date 11/10/2022
Author: Katerina Theodoraki

Context (Analysis)
Analysed using XRF instrumentation by Dr Agnese Benzonelli, University of Cambridge, as part of research by Prof. Marcos Martinon-Torres and Dr Agnese Benzonelli into Benin material at MAA
Event Date 13/3/2023
Author: maa

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