Description (Labels & Markings)
Museum exhibition label written in cursive script 'Wooden Cock Benin'. Written on on a recycled piece of card originally used as Museum stationary.

Appears to be an invitation to an event on 6th October with Captain R.G.B --- as chairman, Archdeacon --- as a speaker and Colonel G.E.C--- as registrar of the National ---.
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Context (Field collection)
Presumed to have been taken during the British Colonial Military Campaign on Benin, 1897, as Webster became the pre-eminent dealer in looted Benin material
Event Date 2/1897
Author: rachel hand

Description (Labels & Markings)
Old handwritten museum paper label notes 'E. 1904.373/ Cock (carved wood)/ Benin/ (Webster Sale Nov 30th)/ * Rev. Charles Taylor, D.D. 1904.
Event Date 1904
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card notes: "A bird (?'cock') carved in wood, standing on an oval base and having a spike on its back."

Event Date 1904
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Writtein in white under the base of the tail '1835' [encircled] and '11443' [Webster nos]
Event Date 1904
Author: rachel hand

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card reads, in black biro: "1904 E 373 | AFRICA | WEST AFRICA / NIGERIA / A BIRD (?turkey) carved in wood, standing on an oval base and having a spike on its back. H 10.7" / Benin / purchased Webster's Sale 1904 / Rev. C. Taylor's donation | R. 1905 772"

In second hand, black biro: "The spike serves as a support for a horn or tusk. Fowls, such as this, were placed on a shrine in the memory of the maternal ancestor of the owner."

In third hand, blue biro, "turkey" has been crossed out: "cock."

Red circular sticker in bottom right of card.
Event Date 1904
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Acquisition Details)
Purchased from William Downing Webster in 1904 with money ascribed the Museum’s Accession Fund by Reverend Charles Taylor D.D., (1840-1908), Hebraist and Master of St John’s College
Event Date 1904
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Photograph attached to rear of catalogue card.
On rear of photograph in blue biro: "1904.373 BENIN / NIGERIA"
Event Date 27/8/2020
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
A cockerel carved in wood with line and chevron decoration. There are the remains of red pigment /earth throughout. The bird stands on an oval base with a vertical spike on its back.
Event Date 15/10/2021
Author: rachel hand