Institutional metadata
Object Number
1998.335.29
Photographic Process
Photographic process: Print gelatin silver
Dimensions
Height x Width 69.00 x 94.00 mm; Height x Width 208.00 x 144.00 mm
Description
View of a memorial stone cross – featuring the words 'In Memoriam' with seven names carved at its base – surrounded by a wooden fence. A caption below the print (written by the album's compiler) describes the cross as being that 'erected by members of the [Niger Coast] Protectorate[,] April 1898', while the names (Phillips, Copland-Crawford, Maling, Campbell, Elliott, Powis, Gordon) identify it as being that raised to those members of James Phillips' party killed in January 1897.
Geographical Provenance
Africa -> Western Africa -> Nigeria, Edo State; Ugbine
Cultural Groups
European -> British
Persons
Photographer: Reginald Kerr Granville, uncertain; Expedition or compiler: Reginald Kerr Granville; Pitt Rivers Museum source: Hugh Nevin Nevins
Dating
Date of photograph: 04/1898, uncertain
Primary Documentation
Notes on print/mount: '29' (numbering in album, handwritten in black ink); 'Memorial cross erected by members of the [Niger Coast] Protectorate[,] April 1898' (handwritten caption in black ink below the print on page mount).