Central to the consideration of the Benin objects currently dispersed across at least 136 institutions is the question of their ties to the British colonial military campaign on Benin City, or the ‘punitive expedition’ of 1897, led by British Navy forces and members of the Niger Coast Protectorate, which caused the wide-scale looting of the royal palace and the city.Read more
Member of the British Colonial Military Campaign on Benin, February 1897Member of the Niger Coast Protectorate Force (NCPF)Collected in the fieldColonial administrator
Member of the British Colonial Military Campaign on Benin, February 1897Collected in the fieldMember of the Niger Coast Protectorate Force (NCPF)Soldier
Collected in the fieldMember of the British Colonial Military Campaign on Benin, February 1897SoldierMember of the Niger Coast Protectorate Force (NCPF)
Member of the British Colonial Military Campaign on Benin, February 1897Member of the Niger Coast Protectorate Force (NCPF)Member of the Phillips Mission on Benin, January 1897
SoldierMember of the British Colonial Military Campaign on Benin, February 1897Collected in the fieldMember of the Niger Coast Protectorate Force (NCPF)
Member of the British Colonial Military Campaign on Benin, February 1897Colonial administratorCollected in the fieldSoldierMember of the Niger Coast Protectorate Force (NCPF)
Member of the British Colonial Military Campaign on Benin, February 1897Collected in the fieldSoldierMember of the Niger Coast Protectorate Force (NCPF)