Institutional metadata
Add ID/s
AF/CA46/25 (copy print number)
Object Name/s
photographic print (black and white)
Technique/s
photographic process
Description (full)
Photograph (black and white), from an album; view of three men standing on the deck of a ship. Central figure, Oba Ovonramwen, wears white wrapper; bare feet shackled together with chains. Soldiers on either side wear uniforms: knee-length trousers, buttoned long-sleeved shirts and tasselled caps, bare feet. Soldier at right proper carries bayonet. Soldier at right proper wears medal. Southern Nigeria.
Albumen print.
Dimension/s
Length: 19.90 cm~Width: 14.50 cm
Previous Owner
Previous owner/ex-collection: Arthur Henry Prest
Prod. Place/s
Photographed in: Nigeria (southern)
Assoc. Ethnic Name/s
Representation of: Edo
Assoc. Place/s
Associated with: Nigeria (southern)
Inscription/s
Inscription:~ Inscription details: annotation~ Inscription quoted: Album Title: "1st BENIN. WARRI. & SAPELE. 2nd NEW CALABAR. BONNY. OPOBO & QUA COUNTRY." [manuscript note on album paper].
Original Description: "His Majesty the King of Benin The City of Blood" [manuscript note on album paper].
Curator's Comment/s
Photograph taken on board the S. S. Ivy, a British Government vessel, under the command of Captain Herbert Alexander Child. Oba Ovonramwen was exiled and sent to Old Calabar in eastern Nigeria in September 1897. The soldiers are British-trained members of the Niger Coast Protectorate force. (Pers.communicaiotn N F Barley, 04/06/1996.)~Photographs in collections Af,A46 and Af,A47 were originally contained in single album containing 176 photographs.
URL
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A46-25