Catalogue card notes: "Two horns covered with hide, the wide ends plugged with wood and covered with hide, the small ends fitted with a wooden stopper (missing in the smaller horn). Both fitted with thongs and cords for slinging."
One horn, part of two, covered with hide. The wide end is plugged with wood and covered with hide; the small end is fitted with a wooden stopper. Fitted with cords for slinging.
One of two horns covered with hide, possibly used as powder horn. The wide end is plugged with wood and covered with hide; the small end is fitted with a wooden stopper. Fitted with cords for carrying.
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
Catalogue card reads, in black ink: "39.179 | Benin / Two horns covered with hide, the wide ends plugged with wood & covered with hide, the small ends fitted with a wooden stopped (missing in the smaller horn). Both fitted with thongs & cords for slinging. / d.d W.W. Collins"
Red circular sticker on bottom right of the card.
Donated by William Wiehé Collins, an English landscape painter.
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Noted by the donor William 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