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1909.11.1.1

Carved box.

1909.11.1.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Carved box.
Geographical reference
Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria
Cultural groups
Edo
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1897
Date collected
1897
Acquisition information
Donated: 1909
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions
Length: max 667 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1909.11.1.1 Accession number: 1909.11.1.2
Research and responses

This object was donated by Mrs H.K. Eden to the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1909. It is documented as having been taken after the British military attack on Benin City in 1897 by Colonel Frederick William Bainbridge Landon. [JMC 14/04/2023]

Associated publications
Listed as no RO/9 on p. 2.1.33 in Philip J. C. Dark, An Illustrated Catalogue of Benin Art, Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1982.

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