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Displaying Loot : The Benin Objects and the British Museum (2016)

by Staffan Lundén

Series: GOTARC Series B - Gothenburg Archaeological Theses (69)

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Benin Kingdom, Nigeria

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Benin Expedition of 1897

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"The Caribbean Taino, the Australian Aboriginals, the African people of Benin [...] can speak to us now of their past achievements most powerfully through the objects they made: a history told through things gives them back a voice."

Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, 2010 (italics added).

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In 1897, armed hostilities broke out between the Edo Kingdom and the British Empire.

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AM7General Works › Museums. Collectors and collecting › Museums. Collectors and collecting

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