Brass cover for cylinder. For brass cylinder see [1898.26.1 .1]

Collection type: Object
Description: Brass cover for cylinder. For brass cylinder see [1898.26.1 .1]
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Benin City
Cultural groups: Edo
Person: Field collector Felix Norman Ling Roth; Field collector 1897 Benin City "Punitive Expedition"; PRM source Henry Ling Roth
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1897
Date collected: 1897
Acquisition information: Donated: 1898
Materials and processes: Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Brass Metal, Process Lost Wax Cast
Dimensions: Diameter: max 94 mm, Height: max 102 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1898.26.1.2
Research and responses: This brass cylinder and lid were looted during the British military attack on Benin City in 1897 by Felix Norman Roth, who was Advance Surgeon on the Expedition. They were soon after acquired by Roth’s brother, Henry Ling Roth, an anthropologist and museum curator. Henry Ling Roth donated the objects to the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1898. [JMC 10/03/2023]
Associated publications: Listed as no B9/56 on p. 2.1.33 in Philip J. C. Dark, An Illustrated Catalogue of Benin Art, Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1982.