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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Montreal’s collection includes three bronze and brass pieces that typify Benin artistry ... also includes a ceremonial carved ivory tusk that would have been placed with a commemorative head ...

Germany has returned 22 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria as part of a larger effort by Western nations to seek reparation of stolen artifacts from Africa. The Benin Bronzes are sculptures and plaques ...

The Netherlands will return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria nearly 130 years after the pieces were stolen by the British and sold to the Dutch. "This restitution contributes to redressing a ...

The Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the German government announced they were returning scores of sculptures, plaques and ornaments, known as the Benin Bronzes ...

Imagine thieves storming your house, stealing precious items, then burning your house down. Within a few years, the thieves start displaying your items and charging money for people to see them ...

Thank you for your editorial on the Benin bronzes (“At the Museum of Fine Arts, a chance for justice,” April 27). However, calling for the repatriation of the plundered artworks to Nigeria ...

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 ...

Known collectively as the Benin Bronzes, the objects — on display in several museums in the US and Europe — are often viewed as a case study in colonial-era looting. In recent years ...

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 ...