Arm ornament; two bars of plaited iron-work, with overlapping, tapering ends.

Collection type: Object
Description: Arm ornament; two bars of plaited iron-work, with overlapping, tapering ends.
Geographical reference: Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria; Benin City
Cultural groups: Edo
Person: Field collector 1897 Benin City "Punitive Expedition"; PRM source Charles G. Kingsley
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1897
Date collected: February 1897
Acquisition information: Donated: 1900
Materials and processes: Material Iron Metal, Process Plaited
Dimensions: Diameter: max 95 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1900.39.17
Research and responses: This object is part of a collection documented as ‘from Benin city, taken during the punitive expedition under Admiral Rawson, February, 1897’. The objects in the collection were acquired by Mary Henrietta Kingsley before her death in June 1900. They were bequeathed to her brother Charles G. Kingsley, with the understanding that they would be transferred to the Pitt Rivers Museum after his death, however he arranged for them to be immediately presented to the Museum, where they entered the collection in September 1900. [JMC 10/03/2023]
Associated publications: Listed as no B9/44 on p. 2.1.33 in Philip J. C. Dark, An Illustrated Catalogue of Benin Art, Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1982. Drawing of this object reproduced as figure 27 on page 29 of Great Benin, Its Customs, Art and Horrors, by H. Ling Roth (Halifax, F. King & Sons, 1903). [LMM 3 1991 ?; JC 7 7 2000]

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