Af,A154.28

EPF11227

6890-1 (William Webster numbers)~6901-9 (William Webster numbers)~6911 (William Webster number)~6920-3 (William Webster numbers)~6925-7 (William Webster numbers)~6934 (William Webster number)

King & Waterfield 2006: ~Webster 1898-9: Cat.21, figs,11-30

Benin Bronzes and Ivories (Series)

photographic print (black and white)~album

paper

photographic process

Photograph (black and white); mounted on card, part of a bound album. View of twenty copper alloy and iron objects: rattle pendant; two bird figures; pendant plaque; three staffs; two horns; ?box; hairpin; hook; knife handle; scraper; bird of prophecy staff; double gong; human figure; pipe bowl; ?base of object; part of wand. Photographic process.

Height: 24.00 cm (page)~Width: 27.40 cm (page)

Previous owner/ex-collection: William Downing Webster

1898-1899 (circa)

Photographed in: London

Associated with: Edo

Associated with: Benin City

Associated Event: British Expedition to Benin City - 1897

Inscription:~ Inscription details: inscription (front of mount; below photograph) in English~ Inscription quoted: 11. Bronze palaver stick. £3.0.0. sold to Dresden Museum. 12. Bronze bird £4.10.0. sold to Gen. Pitt Rivers. 13. Bronze pendant £1.0.0..sold to Berlin Museum. 14. Bronze bird £4.10.0. sold to Linden Museum. 15. Bronze staff. £4.0.0. sold to. 16. Bronze staff £4.0.0. sold to Gen. Pitt Rivers. 17. Bronze war horn £10.0.0. sold to Dresden Museum. 18. Bronze box £10.0.0.sold to Berlin Museum. 19. Bronze war horn. £15.0.0.sold to Gen. Pitt Rivers. 20. Bronze staff. £3.0.0. sold to Basel Museum. 21. Bronze hair ornament £1.5.0. sold to Gen.Pitt Rivers. 22. Bronze hook 15.0.sold to. 23. Bronze knife handle. 15.0 sold to. 24. Iron scraper. 7.6 sold to. 25. Ceremonial staff. £4.10.0. sold to Leiden Museum. 26. Double bronze bell. £7.10.0. sold to Gen. Pitt Rivers. 27. Bronze figure £7.10.0. sold to Leiden Museum. 28. Bronze foot 15.0 sold to [unrecorded]. 29. Bronze base. £10.0.0. sold to Dresden Museum. 30. Part of ceremonial wand. 15.0. ~ Inscription note: Handwritten in black ink. Description of object from the Kingdom of Benin, with indicative purchase prices and names of some vendors.

"This album contains photographs of objects from the Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria sold by the London-based dealer, William Downing Webster. Many of the photographs are annotated with information relating to the vendor/s and some include purchase prices. It is likely that the photographic series was compiled by Webster in the early 1900s. The objects depicted in this photograph were sold by William Webster as follows: 11. to Arthur Baessler in 1901. Donated by Baessler to State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16183. 12. to General Augustus Pitt Rivers by 1900. 13. to the Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in 1899. Accession number: III C 9953. 14. to the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen and Wereldmuseum, Leiden in 1900. Accession number: RV-1243-6. 15. unknown. 16. to General Augustus Pitt Rivers by 1900. 17. to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler to State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16122. 18. to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler to State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16151. 19. to General Augustus Pitt Rivers by 1900. 20. to the Museum der Kulturen Basel in 1899. Accession number: III 1039. 21. to General Augustus Pitt Rivers by 1900. 22. Unknown. 23. Unknown. 24. Unknown. 25. to the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen and Wereldmuseum, Leiden in 1900. Accession number: RV-1243-9 26. to General Augustus Pitt Rivers by 1900. 27. to the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen and Wereldmuseum, Leiden in 1900. Accession number: RV-1243-15 (now missing). 28. Unknown. 29. to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler to State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16126. 30. unknown.

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