Context (Field collection)
Presumed taken during the British Colonial Military Campaign on Benin, February 1897, given the Stevens or Webster sale room stock number
Event Date 2/1897
Author: rachel hand

Context (Amendments / updates)
Donated by Professor Sir William Ridgeway
Event Date 1932
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card notes: "Bronze manilla"

Event Date 8/6/2000
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
A piece of penannular 'ring money' of bronze of oval section, with expanding oval ends. [K. Sutton]
Event Date 17/9/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card reads, in black ink: "27.32 | Africa / Benin / Bronze manilla."
Stamped in black ink: "RIDGEWAY BEQUEST"
Red circular sticker in bottom right corner of card.
Event Date 19/8/2020
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Old inscription in white ink '735 [last digit illegible]' marked on the object.
Event Date 10/9/2021
Author: Benjamina Dadzie

Context (Amendments / updates)
Presumed to have been acquired in the attack on Benin City by British forces in 1897.
The phrase 'British Colonial Military Campaign on Benin' has been added to the source field based on the recommendations of Digital Benin. This explicitly links the object to the capture of Benin City by British Navy Forces and members of the Nigerian Coast Protectorate Forces on 18 February 1897.
Queries have been removed from the place field and the term 'Benin City'. The period field has been updated to the '14th-19th century'. (https://digitalbenin.org/provenance/139; accessed 10.3.2023)

Event Date 10/3/2023
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (Amendments / updates)
There is no information about how Ridgeway obtained this Igho, but it bears the remains of a four-digit sale room stock number, of which only the first three digits are legible: ‘735[?]’.
This suggests that the manilla came from the same Stevens sale room series as E 1902.106.1-10, and indeed some of those items may also have entered the collection via Ridgeway rather than directly from Stevens. rachel hand
Event Date 30/3/2023
Author: Benjamina Dadzie

Context (Other)
One of 99 objects on deposit from the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), Nigeria (pending a physical return to Nigeria).
Event Date 27/1/2026
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (Other owners)
In July 2022, the University of Cambridge agreed to repatriate 116 artefacts, including this object, taken from Benin City by the British military in February 1897. A legal transfer of ownership to the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria, took place on 27 January 2026.
The source field has been updated accordingly.
Event Date 27/1/2026
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung