Stringed bow for fiddle made of metal and animal hairs. The metal bow is externally decorated with circular motifs. The hairs are tied to the metal via two perforation on each end, secured with cotton threads on one end and leather on the other end. The hairs have a knot tied on one end near the leather tie.
Mrs Francis Collins married in 1896, a year before the Benin Expedition and there is no record of her being married before. The majority of the objects, initially accessioned as coming from Benin City, have been later identified as Asante.
It is likely, therefore, that Captain Jackson served in one of the Expeditionry Forces of the Anglo-Ashanti wars.
Given the uncertainty of the place of collection, Ghana and Benin City have been added to the place field with queries, as have Edo and Asante in the cultural group field
Donated by William Wiehé Collins, an English landscape painter.
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Noted by the donor William Wiehé Collins, as belonging to the wife of his late brother, Mr Francis Collins, which had been collected by her first husband, who had served in the Benin Expedition
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Catalogue card reads, in black ink: "39.175 | Benin / (a) Fiddle / (b) bow (metal frame). / Taken in the West African Field Expeditionto Benin by a Capt. Jackson [see Letter 20/1/39.] d.d. W.W. Collins."
Added in second hand, black ink after IDNO: "Nigeria"
Red circular sticker on bottom right of card, with "A" and B" written next to it.