IDNO

P.138583.MUS

Description

Documentary photograph of seven Benin City artefacts arranged in possibly a British? museum? (based on the columns in the background). The grouping includes a brass cockerel, three brass Commemorative Heads of a King, two brass leopards, and a carved ivory tusk. The pieces do not appear to be those now in MAA's collections or advertised in Webster's Catalogue. [JD 6/19/2017]

Place

W Africa; Europe British Isles; Nigeria; United Kingdom; South Nigeria; Edo; Benin City

Cultural Affliation

Edo [historically Benin]

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

British Punitive Expedition under the command of Admiral Rawson [Object collection]

Date

post 1897

Collection Name

Museum Objects and Galleries

Source

Format

None

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.138583.MUS was found at the front of Webster's Illustrated Catalogue, 1899-1900', Catalogue No. 24, February 190, in the MAA Archives. It was transferred from MAA Archives by JD, 6/19/2017.

Bibliographical Reference: Webster's Illustrated Catalogue, 1899-1900', Catalogue No. 24, February 1900, with the description on p. 114 "Of Ethnographical Specimens in Bronze, Wrought Iron, Ivory, and Wood, from Benin City, West Africa, taken at the fall of the City in February, 1897, by the British Punitive Expedition under the command of Admiral Rawson." [JD 6/19/2017]