1998.335.5

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 80.00 x 103.00 mm

View of a large number of carved and uncarved ivory tusks in a room or chamber of the king's (Oba's) residence, or palace or 'compound', in Benin City.

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

-> Edo

Photographer: Reginald Kerr Granville, uncertain; Photographer: Herbert Sutherland Walker, uncertain; Photographer: Norman Burrows, 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); 'RKG' (pencil); 'Landon' (pencil); 'HLS' (pencil); 'CCB' (pencil) (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: '5.' (numbering in album, handwritten in black ink); 'Ivory found in the city' (handwritten caption in black ink below the print on page mount).; Another print [2019.32.2.50] of the same photograph in the Pitt Rivers Museum's collections has a different/related caption, providing some further or additional context: 'More loot' (handwritten caption in black ink below the print on page mount).