Archival Documents
Access to archival documents is a pivotal expansion from the catalogue. Just as the historic Benin objects are dispersed across institutions globally, so are the relevant archival materials. Although not comprehensive, these documents are identified and brought together by Digital Benin, and selected for their relevance to the study of the historic objects and the history of the Benin Kingdom.
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Sales Catalogue
Specific objects: 98
Object group: Osogan, Ebẹn, Ada, Akhiọn/Ukoko, Uko Ẹkhaẹ, Ọkporhu, Ukhurhẹ, Akohẹn/Oko, Azuwa, Urhukpa-Ẹvbi, Ahianmwẹ-Ọrọ, Ẹgogo, Okpia, Ama, Aken'ni Elao, Ẹgba, Oroka, Ikoro, Uhunmwu-Ẹkuẹ, Ẹroro, Ẹkpẹtin, Ikẹgobọ, Ikpin, Uko, Ẹkpẹn, Isẹ
Source: Webster, William Downing
Target -
Mentioned: -
1899
Auction Catalogue
Specific objects: 0
Object group: Ikẹgobọ, Ẹroro, Ọba, Ẹkpẹtin, Uhunmwu-Elao, Ukhurhẹ
Source: Hôtel Drouot
Target -
Mentioned: -
1972
Photograph
Specific objects: 0
Object group: Ikoro, Akohẹn/Oko, Ukhurhẹ, Ada, Emwiegbe, Asoro, Ama, Ẹgba, Uhẹnhẹn/Ekuyẹ, Ahianmwẹ-Ọrọ, Asa
Source: Oldman, William Ockelford
Target -
Mentioned: -
1905
Auction Catalogue
Specific objects: 1
Object group: Ama, Umozo/Ọhọ, Ikpakohen, Aro Ododua, Aken'ni Elao, Ikoro, Uzokpo, Ahianmwẹ-Ọrọ, Ẹroro, Uhunmwu-Ẹkuẹ, Aken'ni Elao, Akohẹn/Oko, Okhuo, Ukhurhẹ
Source: Foster's
Target -
Mentioned: -
1931
Auction Catalogue
Specific objects: 0
Object group: Ẹkpẹtin, Ẹroro, Ukhurhẹ
Source: Hôtel Drouot
Target -
Mentioned: Ortiz, George, Rouayroux, Max
1973
Auction Catalogue
Specific objects: 0
Object group: Aken'ni Elao, Uhunmwu-Ẹkuẹ, Ọkpan, Ama, Agba, Ukhurhẹ
Source: Sotheby's
Target -
Mentioned: Widenham Fosbery, Dalton, Ormonde Maddock, Read, Charles Hercules, Hooper, Dusendschon, Ascher, Ernst, Hakim
1935
Correspondence
Specific objects: 39
Object group: Uhunmwu-Elao, Ama, Urhotọ, Uhunmwu elao ọghe Iy’ọba , Okpia, Ukhurhẹ, Ivbiotọ, Ikpin
Source: Schmidt, Eduard
Target General-Verwaltung der Königlichen Museen
Mentioned: -
1898
Price List
Specific objects: 0
Object group: Ughavan, Oyiya, Uhẹnhẹn/Ekuyẹ, Ukhurhẹ, Urhukpa-Ẹvbi, Ikoro, Ama, Ọkporhu, Ema
Source: Webster, William Downing
Target Luschan, Felix Ritter von
Mentioned: -
1899
Accession RecordInventory
Specific objects: 1
Object group: Ukhurhẹ
Source: Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt
Target -
Mentioned: Oldman, William Ockelford
-
Inventory
Specific objects: 212
Object group: Aken'ni Elao, Uhunmwu-Ẹkuẹ, Uhunmwu-Elao, Emwiegbe, Ighẹghan, Ẹroro, Ama, Uhunmwu elao ọghe Iy’ọba , Urhotọ, Osogan, Akohẹn/Oko, Ikoro, Okhuo, Uko, Ibierugha, Agba, Ukhurhẹ, Urhukpa-Ẹvbi, Ebẹn, Ẹgba, Ikpin, Ikẹgobọ, Ido, Idẹnrhẹn, Ovazẹ, Afian, Anwa/Akpoka, Igho, Ọkporhu, Ukpu, Okpia, Ẹkpẹn, Ikpakohen, Ewua, Uru, Ẹkpẹtin, Ahianmwẹ-Ọrọ, Asigbe
Source: Webster, William Downing
Target -
Mentioned: Fenton & Sons, Baxter, Watson, Stevens Auction Rooms, Pitt-Rivers (Lane Fox), Augustus Henry, National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, Edinburgh, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, Museum of Liverpool, Liverpool, Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden, John Carter Son & co., Weltmuseum Wien , Cutter, William D., Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Frank, Gustav Adolph , Historisches Museum, Dresden, Brown, J. C. , Cross, Reginald R. , Lawrence, George Fabian 'Stoney Jack', Juckler, Longfield, J. H. , Webster (born Cutter), Eva Amarantha, Burrows, Norman, Seppings Wright, Henry Charles, Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich, Roupell, Ernest Percy Stuart, Världskulturmuseerna, Stockholm, Jenkinson, Francis John Henry, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Nationalmuseet, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Christie's, Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Horniman Museum, London, Meyer, Hans, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Grassi Museum of Ethnology, Leipzig, Ayer, Edward Everett
1897
Inventory
Specific objects: 254
Object group: Aken'ni Elao, Uhunmwu-Ẹkuẹ, Uhunmwu-Elao, Ẹroro, Akohẹn/Oko, Ama, Aga, Agba, Ada, Ebẹn, Ẹkpẹtin, Osisi/Etu, Urhukpa-Ẹvbi, Emwiegbe, Ẹkpẹn, Ikoro, Ẹgba, Idẹnrhẹn, Isanrẹn, Ukhurhẹ, Uko, Uman-ague/Ugbugbe, Urhotọ, Ewua, Ahianmwẹ-Ọrọ, Azuwa, Ọkporhu, Ẹrhẹ, Osogan, Emwiurhu, Uzokpo, Ẹgogo, Umozo/Ọhọ, Okpia, Iyeọkhọkhọ, Ikẹgobọ, Ikpotoki, Ukpu, Okhuo, Isẹ, Ivin
Source: Webster, William Downing
Target -
Mentioned: Stevens, John Crace, Stevens Auction Rooms, Meyer, Hans, Grassi Museum of Ethnology, Leipzig, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden, Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK), Hamburg, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Puttick & Simpson, Världskulturmuseerna, Stockholm, Giglioli, Franco, National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, Edinburgh, Ridgeway, William, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Bates, Oric, Juckler, Stadt Museum Freiburg, Zimmerman, Oldman, William Ockelford , Jackson, Museum of Primitive Arts, New York, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, Meyer, Hermann August Heinrich, Fenton & Sons
1900
Scan of published worksMuseum Catalogue
Specific objects: 91
Object group: Uhunmwu-Elao, Uhunmwu elao ọghe Iy’ọba , Ama, Okpia, Ẹkpẹn, Uhunmwu-Ẹkuẹ, Ikoro, Ẹgba, Elubasẹ/Isevbere, Oroka, Igho, Emwiegbe, Ẹroro, Ebẹn, Ahianmwẹ-Ọrọ, Akhiọn/Ukoko, Agbada, Ẹkpẹtin, Oyiya, Akohẹn/Oko, Ukhurhẹ, Aken'ni Elao, Akhẹ
Source: Marquart, Joseph
Target -
Mentioned: Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Roth, Henry Ling, Schmeltz, Johannes Dietrich Eduard, British Museum, London, Pitt-Rivers (Lane Fox), Augustus Henry, Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, Knorr, Carl Heinrich Eduard, Luschan, Felix Ritter von, Hagen, Karl, Read, Charles Hercules, Dalton, Ormonde Maddock, Gallwey (Galway), Henry Lionel , Roth, Felix Norman, Bacon, Reginald Hugh Spencer, Balfour, Henry, Ovonramwẹ N’Ogbaisi, Adọlọ, Ẹsigie, Punch, Cyril, Webster, William Downing, Museum of Liverpool, Liverpool, Meyer, Hans, Granville, Reginald Kerr, Karutz, Richard, Dapper, Olfert
1913
Diary
Specific objects: 0
Object group: Osisi/Etu, Uhunmwu-Elao, Aken'ni Elao, Ẹroro, Urhukpa-Ẹvbi, Emwiurhu, Ivie, Ẹkan, Ukhurhẹ, Ema
Source: Punch, Cyril
Target -
Mentioned: Powis, Henry, Ovonramwẹ N’Ogbaisi, Adọlọ, Jaja of Opobo, Johnstone, Hewitt, Olomu, Nana, Ahoorakoo, Ẹsigie, Idehan, Agbe, Agurramasse, Nagboi, Ejomun, Ewagwe, Arribo, Adubowa, Selby
1889
Research notesSketch
Specific objects: 19
Object group: Aken'ni Elao, Ikpin, Uhunmwu-Ẹkuẹ, Asologun, Akpata, Oyiya, Ada, Isanrẹn, Uhunmwu-Elao, Eseiku, Okpia, Ikpotoki, Ama, Ẹgba, Ikoro, Ahianmwẹ-Ọrọ, Elubasẹ/Isevbere, Ighẹghan, Ẹroro, Akhiọn/Ukoko, Ikẹgobọ, Ukhurhẹ, Ẹkpẹde, Uhanbọ, Ifẹnmwẹ, Umozo/Ọhọ, Urhotọ, Oroka, Ẹguẹn, Ivie, Ẹkan, Asa, Ẹkpoki, Uman-ague/Ugbugbe, Ẹrhẹ, Ẹkpẹtin
Source: Bradbury, Robert Elwyn, Egharevba, Jacob U.
Target -
Mentioned: Luschan, Felix Ritter von, Ohẹn, Ẹwuare I, Ẹsigie, Ọzọlua, Akẹnzua II, Inneh, Murray, Kenneth Crosthwaite, Egharevba, Jacob U. , Goodwin, Ohuan
1960
Research notes
Specific objects: 0
Object group: Ukhurhẹ
Source: Bradbury, Robert Elwyn
Target -
Mentioned: Aduwa, Ovonramwẹ N’Ogbaisi, Adọlọ, Ogiegbaen
1961
Research notes
Specific objects: 0
Object group: Ukhurhẹ
Source: Bradbury, Robert Elwyn
Target -
Mentioned: Esogban N'Iyamu
1961