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Benin Bronzes

Benin Bronzes from Benin City, Nigeria, commemorating an Oba and a Queen Mother

The Queen Mother

[Photo of a Benin Bronze commemorating a Queen Mother] [Photo of a Benin Bronze commemorating a Queen Mother] [Photo of Represent Label]

The Oba

[Photo of a Benin Bronze commemorating an Oba] [Photo of a Benin Bronze commemorating an Oba] [Photo of a Benin Bronze commemorating a Queen Mother] [Photo of a Benin Bronze commemorating a Queen Mother]
John's audio label:
John's extended audio:

Label by John Uche Ngonadi

Name of Object: Blood Benin Bronzes
Here lies an incredibly artistic object of a people once called barbaric, primitive and savage negroes adorning European Museums. Stolen by the British in 1897, after an unwarranted massacre and burning of a self-surviving kingdom. These blood Benin arts can be likened to the Sierra Leone blood Diamonds.

See how the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge records the first object here.

See how the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge records the second object here.

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