Digital Benin

Horniman Museum and Gardens

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Last Updated: 2022-08-15

Language: English

identifier/accession numberObject ID

3481a

name/object name (local)Edo Designation

name/common nameDesignation

carved ivory bracelet

name/object nameDesignation

armlets (arm ornament); bracelets (arm ornaments)

name/object name (Horniman Ethno)Designation

bracelet; bracelet (arm ornament)

name/object name (unclassified)Designation

name/object name AATDesignation

title/displayDesignation

descriptionDescription, Description

description/1Description, Description

description/catalogueDescription, Description

Ivory bracelet carved with three bands of heads.

description/highlight onlineDescription, Description

description/historical/1/commentaryDescription, Description

description/historical/1/dateDescription

21-Jun-99

description/historical/1/objectDescription, Description

bracelet (arm ornament)

description/historical/1/sourceDescription

description/historical/2/dateDescription

21-Jun-99

description/historical/2/noteDescription

description/historical/2/objectDescription

carved ivory bracelet

description/historical/2/onlineDescription

description/historical/2/sourceDescription

description/historical/3/dateDescription

22-Jan-00

description/historical/3/objectDescription

Carved ivory bracelet

description/historical/3/sourceDescription

description/historical/4/dateDescription

description/historical/4/objectDescription

"Carved ivory bracelet from Benin" [Acc Reg]

description/historical/4/sourceDescription

description/historical/5/dateDescription

description/historical/5/objectDescription

description/historical/5/sourceDescription

description/historical/dateDescription

description/historical/label textDescription

description/historical/objectDescription

description/historical/onlineDescription

Carved ivory bracelet from Benin.

description/historical/sourceDescription

description/object/1/commentaryDescription

Edo 'kings' or Obas wore ivory armlets and bracelets at ceremonies. This armlet is decorated with the carved heads of Portuguese traders with long noses, flowing hair and beards, which probably signalled the Oba's access to foreign sources of wealth and power. Like brass and coral, ivory does not decay easily in the tropical environment and so was used in Edo royal regalia to emphasise the permanence and continuity of the ruling dynasty.

description/object/1/dateDescription

2013-04-11

description/object/1/descriptionDescription

description/object/2/descriptionDescription

description/object/2/sourceDescription

description/object/commentaryDescription

description/object/dateDescription

2016-04-27

description/object/descriptionDescription

Ivory bracelet carved with three bands of heads.

description/onlineDescription

description/online/sourceDescription

description/originalDescription

options/useDescription

materials/1/componentMaterial

overall

materials/1/materialMaterial

elephant ivory

materials/1/noteMaterial

materials/2/componentMaterial

materials/2/materialMaterial

materials/2/techniqueMaterial

materials/3/componentMaterial

materials/3/materialMaterial

materials/catalogueMaterial

elephant ivory

measurements/dimensions/catalogueDimensions

overall: 93 mm x 60 mm x 57 mm

measurements/displayDimensions

overall: 130 mm x 90 mm

name/catalogueObject Type

bracelet (arm ornaments); armlet (arm ornament)

objects/summary titleObject Type

votive container

objects/summary title/1Object Type

objects/summary title/2Object Type

summary titleObject Type

bracelet (arm ornaments); armlet (arm ornament)

title/catalogueObject Type

title/historicalObject Type

title/historical/1Object Type

measurements/countObject Count

options/item countObject Count

inscription/descriptionInscriptions

inscription/locationInscriptions

inscription/transcriptionInscriptions

lifecycle/creation/date/date madeInscriptions

before 1897

lifecycle/creation/dateDate Made

cultures/maker or userProducer

Edo

lifecycle/creation/makerProducer

lifecycle/creation/places/made or collectedProduction Place

Benin City; Africa; Nigeria

lifecycle/creation/places/place/catalogueProduction Place

Benin City, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa

lifecycle/ownership/owner/1/dateProvenance

1898

lifecycle/ownership/owner/1/vendorProvenance

unknown

lifecycle/ownership/owner/dateProvenance

1897

lifecycle/ownership/owner/donorProvenance

lifecycle/ownership/owner/previous ownerProvenance

lifecycle/ownership/owner/vendorProvenance

Hider, W. J.

lifecycle/collection/date collectedDate Collected

1897

cultures/catalogue cultureEthnic Attribution

Edo

note/catalogueNotes

1. Possible numbering problem: Listed in reference manual for the Centenary Gallery as 3481b. When decanted, check what number it is marked with. Jennings, Rachel; 2016-04-11. 2. checked by VEV,3.2.69,appears to be same object with different no's 3. A58 is duplicate of this record 4. The register indicates that these objects are the same as A58 and 59, part of Mr Hider's collection of Benin Curios taken from the King's Palace shortly before destruction in 1897, see both register pages for more detailed provenance information

exhibitions/1/catalogue/cataloguedExhibition History

exhibitions/1/summary titleExhibition History

exhibitions/1/theme/sectionExhibition History

exhibitions/1/theme/sub1Exhibition History

exhibitions/1/theme/sub2Exhibition History

exhibitions/2/catalogue/cataloguedExhibition History

exhibitions/2/summary titleExhibition History

exhibitions/2/theme/sectionExhibition History

exhibitions/2/theme/sub1Exhibition History

exhibitions/3/catalogue/cataloguedExhibition History

exhibitions/3/summary titleExhibition History

exhibitions/3/theme/sectionExhibition History

exhibitions/3/theme/sub1Exhibition History

exhibitions/3/theme/sub2Exhibition History

exhibitions/catalogue/cataloguedExhibition History

exhibitions/summary titleExhibition History

Being Human

exhibitions/theme/sectionExhibition History

Encounters

exhibitions/theme/sub1Exhibition History

Africa

exhibitions/theme/sub2Exhibition History

Nigeria

locations/public locationDisplay Status

On display: Horniman Museum > World Gallery > Africa > Nigeria - Benin