1998.335.3

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

Group portrait of nine men, standing, including six British officers or members of the Niger Coast Protectorate Force (N.C.P.F.) – identified as Maj. Norman Burrows (third from left), Dr. Robert Allman (fourth from left), Capt. Charles Ringer (fifth from left), Maj. Ernest Roupell (sixth from left), Alfred Turner (third from right) and Capt. Charles Carter (right) – and three unnamed African men (soldiers or auxiliaries/porters). They are pictured in front of the king's (Oba's) residence, or palace or 'compound', in Benin City.

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

-> Edo; European -> British

Photographer: Reginald Kerr Granville, uncertain; Photographer: Herbert Sutherland Walker, uncertain; Expedition or compiler: Reginald Kerr Granville; Named Person: Robert Allman; Named Person: Norman Burrows; Named Person: Charles Harding Newman Ringer; Named Person: Charles Herbert Philip Carter; Named Person: Ernest Percy Stuart Roupell; Named Person: Alfred Turner; Pitt Rivers Museum source: Hugh Nevin Nevins

Maj. Norman Burrows (third from left/seventh from right); Dr. Robert Allman (fourth from left/sixth from right); Capt. Charles Harding Newman Ringer (fifth from left/fifth from right); Maj. Ernest Percy Stuart Roupell (fourth from right); Alfred Turner (third from right); Capt. Charles Herbert Philip Carter (right)

Date of photograph: 18/02/1897 - 19/02/1897, uncertain

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: 'The first Residents[.] Benin City' (handwritten caption in black ink above the print on page mount); '3.' (numbering in album, handwritten in black ink); 'Burrows/ Allman/ Ringer/ Roupell/ Turner/ Carter' (names identifying some of the men pictured in the photograph, handwritten in black ink below the print on page mount).; Another print [2019.32.2.49] of the same photograph in the Pitt Rivers Museum's collections has a different/related caption, providing some further or additional context: 'Officers N[iger]. C[oast]. P[rotectorate]. F[orce].' (handwritten caption in black ink below the print on page mount).