To exhibit the works, known as Benin Bronzes, the museum created a gallery ... two commemorative heads and an 18th- or 19th-century pendant showing an oba and two dignitaries.

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Collectively known as Benin Bronzes, the sculptural heads, plaques, and pendants are a wonder to behold. But a colonial shadow has long hung over them. In 1897, after a group of British officials ...

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