The Benin Bronzes, some of Africa’s greatest treasures ... An archivist’s note, written when the tusk was taken into the British Museum collection in 1897. It says the tusk came from ...

Read more about the Benin Bronzes—and recent calls ... Benin objects in its collections, including two bronzes and a carved ivory tusk. Per the Art Newspaper, Christine Mullen Kreamer, deputy ...

A group of Benin Bronzes on display in the Wereldmuseum. The objects are (from left to rigth): a worked elephant tusk, Benin (1500-1891); a head of a prince (oba), Benin (1600-1750); a statue of a ...

Standing in Igun Street, the centre of African bronze casting for the past 10 centuries, Alex Agbonmwenre could tell a story about the British forces that razed Edo and destroyed the Benin Empire ...

He presented the king with two bronze works – a bird (Ahianmwen ... Inspired by the earlier donation of a carved Benin six foot tall Benin Ivory tusk his grandmother, Josephine Walker, to ...

The bronge princess is included in an exhibit of Benin ivory and bronze works at the Museum until ... current exhibit include a six foot elephant tusk, carved in relief with richly dressed figures ...

Left to right: "Worked elephant tusk" (1500–1891), Benin ... The Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria per the country’s request, marking the single largest return ...