Catalogue card reads, in blue ink: "50.276 | Africa | Nigeria / Part of bronze pendant bearing 2 interlaced mudfish in high relief. / Benin. / F.W. Green bequest."
Red circular sticker in bottom left of card.
Webster, W.D. (1901) Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnological Specimens. European and Eastern Arms and Armour. Prehistoric and Other Curiosities, Vol. 5, No. 29.
Illustrated on p. 52, plate 52; fig. 123 as (11702) Fragment of a bronze pendant representing two cat fish[sic], 6 ½ by 3 ¼ inches. £0.12.6
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.
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Given by Frederick William Green, Honorary Keeper of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1908–1949)
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Purchased by Green from Bicester dealer William Webster in 1901 and presumed to be part of the material looted on the 1897 Expeditionto Benin. See Webster 1901.
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Exhibited: On display in Maudslay Hall, Drawer 37 A under the Nigeria case from 27/6/2001- 19/11/2015.