1998.335.13

Format: Print

Photographic process: Print gelatin silver

Height x Width 69.00 x 94.00 mm; Height x Width 208.00 x 144.00 mm; Height x Width 82.00 x 111.00 mm

Three Yoruba men using a branch as a pole to move the decaying or desiccated body (corpse) of a man or woman, described in the caption below the print (written by the album's compiler) as showing the men in the process of 'removing human sacrifice'.

Africa -> Western Africa -> Nigeria, Edo State; Benin City

-> Yoruba; -> Edo

Photographer: Reginald Kerr Granville, uncertain; Photographer: Herbert Sutherland Walker, uncertain; Expedition or compiler: Reginald Kerr Granville; Pitt Rivers Museum source: Hugh Nevin Nevins

Date of photograph: 18/02/1897 - 15/03/1897

Donated: 1968

Notes on print/mount: 'R' (ink) (being initials and/or annotations on reverse of print, in various hands and in ink and pencil). It is not explicitly clear to what or whom these refer, beyond being the initials or names of British officers on the military campaign.; Notes on print/mount: '13' (numbering in album, handwritten in black ink); 'Yorubas removing human sacrifice' (handwritten caption in black ink below the print on page mount).