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Editor s note: On December 8, the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute (IAHI) hosted an Arts+Ethics webinar with author Dan Hicks. In my capacity as an IAHI research assistant, I wrote a preview article â on which this article is based â as a preview for this event. It first appeared in the IAHI blog on Nov. 6.Â
In the African galleries at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, youâll find a brass plaque depicting a warrior, dating from between the 16th and the 18th centuries. But the gallery label doesnât detail how the British military extracted this item from the Kingdom of Benin in Nigeria.