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2008.65.5

View of two objects from Benin - both bronzes - in the collections of the Cranmore Ethnographical Museum.

2008.65.5

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Collection type
Photograph
Description
View of two objects from Benin - both bronzes - in the collections of the Cranmore Ethnographical Museum.
Cultural groups
Edo
Date / Period
Date of photograph: 1933 - 1934
Acquisition information
Found unentered: 2008
Photographic process
Print gelatin silver
Dimensions
Length x Width 87 x 137 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2008.65.5
Research and responses

Research Notes - The Cranmore Ethnographical Museum was established by Harry Geoffrey Beasley (1881-1939) and his wife Irene in their home, Cranmore House, in Chislehurst, Kent (now in Greater London), the collections being dispersed after his death. For more information on Beasley and his private Cranmore Ethnographical Museum, see Hermione Waterfield, 'Harry Geoffrey Beasley', in Hermione Waterfield and J. C. H. King (eds.), Provenance: Twelve Collectors of Ethnographic Art in England, 1760-1990 (Paris and Geneva, 2006), pp.78-91. [PG 09/08/2012]

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