1900.39.11

Collection type

Object

Description

Clapper bell

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

1897/2

Acquisition information

Donated: 1900

Materials and processes

Material Bronze Metal, Material Metal Wire, Process Lost Wax Cast, Process Decorated, Process Perforated

Dimensions

Height: max 60 mm, Width: max 60 mm, Length: max 100 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1900.39.11

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]

Listed as no B9/30 on p. 2.1.134 in Philip J. C. Dark, An Illustrated Catalogue of Benin Art, Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1982, where it is classified under 'Hunter Style' as 'Non-Benin'.

Associated publications

Listed as no B9/30 on p. 2.1.134 in Philip J. C. Dark, An Illustrated Catalogue of Benin Art, Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1982, where it is classified under 'Hunter Style' as 'Non-Benin'.

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