1998.335.8

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 79.00 x 108.00 mm

View of a group of four Edo men, sitting on a bench along the wall of a building, captioned in black ink below the print 'Captive Bini chiefs'; they are members of a second deputation (of two) sent by the king (Oba) of Benin to negotiate with leaders of the British military campaign force, subsequently held as hostages.

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

-> Edo; -> Edo Bini

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: 25/02/1897 - 03/03/1897

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: '8.' (numbering in album, handwritten in black ink); 'Captive Bini chiefs' (handwritten caption in black ink below the print on page mount).; Another print [2019.32.2.47] of the same photograph in the Pitt Rivers Museum's collections has a different/related caption, providing some further or additional context: '"Bull-necked" & Co.' (handwritten caption in black ink below the print on page mount).