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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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Source: Kaiser, Oscar
Target Luschan, Felix Ritter von
Mentioned: Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden
1904
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Source: Luschan, Felix Ritter von
Target Richter, Oswald
Mentioned: Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden
1904
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Source: Richter, Oswald
Target Luschan, Felix Ritter von
Mentioned: Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden
1904
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Source: -
Target Luschan, Felix Ritter von
Mentioned: Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden, Richter, Oswald, Meyer, Hans
1904
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Source: Buchner
Target Luschan, Felix Ritter von
Mentioned: Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden
1904
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Source: Buchner
Target Luschan, Felix Ritter von
Mentioned: Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden
1904
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Object group: -
Source: Buchner
Target Luschan, Felix Ritter von
Mentioned: Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden
1903
Correspondence
Specific objects: 0
Object group: Ikoro, Ama, Ẹroro, Akohẹn/Oko
Source: Luschan, Felix Ritter von
Target -
Mentioned: Webster (born Cutter), Eva Amarantha, Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden
1899
Correspondence
Specific objects: 0
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Source: Meyer, Hans
Target Luschan, Felix Ritter von
Mentioned: Webster, William Downing, Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden
1899
Correspondence
Specific objects: 0
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Source: Foy, Willy
Target Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin
Mentioned: Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden
1899
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Specific objects: 0
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Source: Foy, Willy
Target Luschan, Felix Ritter von
Mentioned: Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden
1901
Scan of published worksMuseum Catalogue
Specific objects: 1
Object group: Eseiku, Ewua
Source: Barnes Foundation
Target -
Mentioned: Weltmuseum Wien , Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden, Burrows, Norman
2015
Correspondence
Specific objects: 0
Object group: -
Source: Webster, William Downing
Target Sarasin, Karl Friedrich 'Fritz'
Mentioned: Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, Weltmuseum Wien , Världskulturmuseerna, Stockholm, Nationalmuseet, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
1899
CorrespondencePrice List
Specific objects: 0
Object group: -
Source: Webster, William Downing
Target Hügel, Anatole Andreas Aloys von
Mentioned: Pitt-Rivers (Lane Fox), Augustus Henry, Weltmuseum Wien , Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden, Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Museum of Liverpool, Liverpool, Världskulturmuseerna, Stockholm, Nationalmuseet, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1899
Correspondence
Specific objects: 0
Object group: -
Source: Webster, William Downing
Target Stolpe, Hjalmar
Mentioned: Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden
1900
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