Institutional metadata
Add ID/s
AF/CA46/44 (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 a cemetery in forested area showing graves in row at left, with crosses and gravestones. Metal fence in background. Edo State.
Albumen print.
Dimension/s
Length: 14.00 cm~Width: 19.90 cm
Subject/s
grave/burial mound ~cemetery
Previous Owner
Previous owner/ex-collection: Arthur Henry Prest
Prod. Place/s
Photographed in: Benin City (near)
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: "Benin River Cemetary Stones erected in memory of those who fell in the operation against Chief Nana 1894" [manuscript note on album paper].
Curator's Comment/s
Nana Olomu (1852–1916) was an Itsekiri chief and merchant from the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria. He was the fourth Itsekiri chief to hold the position of Governor of Benin River. In 1894 a British military expedition composed of joint military and naval forces attacked his capital, Ebrohimi and forced him to leave. Nana Olumu subsequently lived in Koko. His palace has been converted into a museum, the Nana Living History Museum, which chronicles his interactions with British colonial officials. Photographs in collecitions Af,A46 and Af,A47 were originally contianed in single album containing 176 photographs.
URL
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A46-44