Arm ornament; brass ring with leaf motifs, decorated with two human faces in copper.

Collection type: Object
Description: Arm ornament; brass ring with leaf motifs, decorated with two human faces in copper.
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 Copper Metal, Material Brass Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Overlay
Dimensions: Diameter: max 123 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1900.39.14
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 B9/37 on p. 2.1.32 in Philip J. C. Dark, An Illustrated Catalogue of Benin Art, Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1982. Reproduced in black and white as figure 628 on page 407 of Die Altertümer von Benin, by Felix von Luschan (Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1919; reprinted New York: Hacker Art Books, 1968). [LMM ?; JC 6 7 2000] Reproduced as figure 30 on page 29 of Great Benin, Its Customs Art and Horrors, H. Ling Roth (Halifax, 1903). [LMM ?; JC 6 7 2000]

Search terms: Ornament, Figure, Arm Ornament

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