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
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.
Donated by William Wiehé Collins, an English landscape painter.
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In January 2017, Prof. Marcos Martinon-Torres and Agnese Benzonelli, UCL Institute of Archaeology, tested this idno using a portable XRF as part of a programme of base metal analysis of Benin material. The object was texted once and the results are as follows: Cu: 75.44%; Zn: 23.51%; Sn: 0.05%; Pb: 0.65%. It was noted that a Zn reading of >20 indicates post 1700 where very low traces suggest post 1800.
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'On display in the Andrews Gallery, Case 4.01, as part of the Benin redisplay. 2017 - current. [E.Wilkinson]
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Catalogue card reads, in black ink: "39.176 | Benin / Heavy brass anklet / Skeumorphic fish plaiting / d.d. W.W. Collins."
Red circular sticker on bottom right of card.
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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