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)
The accession number and a number that reads '735[one not legible digit]' are marked on the object.
Event Date 10/9/2021
Author: Benjamina Dadzie

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.
Event Date 30/3/2023
Author: Benjamina Dadzie