Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card notes: "A bottle shaped receptacle for cosmetics made of an elephant's pad. Used for holding a preparation of antimony for the eyes of women."
Event Date 7/6/2000
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Box list gave the Annual Report number, but the Accession Register also gave the Blue Book number. Unsure which number the object is labelled with.
Event Date 16/1/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card reads, in black biro: "1914.5 | AFRICA | WEST AFRICA / NIGERIA / BENIN / A bottle shaped RECEPTACLE for cosmetics made of an elephant's pad, used for holding a preparation of antimony for the eyes of women. / N. M. Penger. | A.R.1914.391"

[N.B. The catalogue card and Accession Register appear to spell the donor's name as 'Penger', but the printed Annual Report list it as Penzer. Norman Mosley Penzer (1892 - 1960) was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and seems to be the likely donor.]
Event Date 19/8/2020
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Acquisition Details)
Donated by Norman Mosley Penzer - known as N. M. Penzer- (1892 – 1960), Corpus Christi College, an independent scholar and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society who specialised in Oriental studies.


Event Date 18/10/2021
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
The narrow term 'Benin' has been used within the museum and more widely to refer to both Benin City as well as the Kingdom of Benin and both terms have therefore been added to the place field with queries to show the original provenance.
No known connections to the 1897 Benin Expedition

Event Date 30/3/2023
Author: rachel hand