Af,A154.81

EPF11282

7597 (William Webster number)~8786 (William Webster number)~8988 (William Webster number)~9353-4 (William Webster numbers)~9361 (William Webster number)~9369 (William Webster number)~9379-81 (William Webster numbers)~9388 (William Webster number)~9470 (William Webster number)~9500 (William Webster number)~9502-4 (William Webster numbers)~9623 (William Webster number)~9752 (William Webster number)~9761 (William Webster number)~9807 (William Webster numbers)

King & Waterfield 2006: ~Webster 1907: Cat.24, figs.60-80

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-one objects: one brass wand; one pair of brass tongs; two brass bird of prophecy staffs; one ada sword; one carved wood staff; one brass staff-head; one brass sword; two brass leopards; two iron armlets; two fragments of brass relief plaques; two fragments of pendants; one brass nail; one knife; one brass armlet; one fragment; one part brass figure. 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

Made by: Edo

Associated with: Benin City

Inscription:~ Inscription details: inscription (front of mount; below photograph) in English~ Inscription quoted: 60. Brass ceremonial wand. £5.0.0. 61. Brass tongs. £3.10.0. 62. Bronze ceremonial staff. £4.10.0. 63. Executioners sword. £7.10.0. 64. Bronze ceremonial staff. £4.10.0. 65. Carved wood fetish. £1.0.0. 66. Bronze figure. £5.0.0. 67. Bronze ceremonial sword.£3.10.0. 68. Bronze leopard pendant. £5.0.0. 69. Iron armlet with four brass masks. £1.5.0. 71. Bronze pendant. £7.0.0. Berlin Museum. 70. Portion of a bronze plaque. £1.0.0.~ Inscription note: Handwritten in black ink. Description of objects from the Kingdom of Benin, with indicative purchase prices and name of one vendor.

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 object depicted in this photograph was sold by William Webster as follows: 60. unknown. 61. unknown. 62. unknown. 63. unknown. 64. to Hans Meyer by 1907. Donated by Meyer to the Världskultur Museerna, National Musuems of World Culture, Stockholm. Accession number: 1907.44.0376. 65. unknown. 66. unknown. 67. unknown. 68. by 1934 purchased by Louis Colville Gray Clarke at the Roe Curiosity Shop, Cambridge. Donated by Clarke in 1934 to the Museum for Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Accession number: 1934.16. 69. unknown. 70. unknown. 71. to the Ethnologische Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in 1900. Accession number: III C 10875. 72. to the Nationaal Musuem van Wereldculturen and Wereldmusuem, Leiden in 1900. Accession number: RV-1243-39. 73. unknown. 74. unknown. 75. unknown. 76. unknown. 77. unknown. 78. unknown. 79. unknown. 80. to the Nationaal Musuem van Wereldculturen and Wereldmusuem, Leiden in 1900. Accession number: RV-1243-23.

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