IDNO

P.156706.MAT

Description

Black and white photograph of a Benin Bronze statue of a Cockerel. The statue, known as 'Okukor' has been identified as one of the thousands of objects looted from the Oba's Palace when British forces led their 'punishment raid' on Benin City in 1897. It was given as a gift to Jesus College, Cambridge in 1905 by George William Neville. The Cockerel statue was restituted to Nigeria in 2021. [GO 16/12/2022]

Place

W Africa; Europe British Isles; Nigeria; United Kingdom; Benin; Edo State; England; Cambridge; Jesus College

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Museum Archives Transfer

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.156647.MAT - P.156864.MAT and P.176654.MAT - P.176687.MAT were found unaccessioned in a red folder box in the Paper Archives and transferred to the Photograph Collections and numbered C1048/ [JD 28/08/2025]