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The looted Benin bronzes should be returned

B
ENIN CITY, or Edo as it was known in its heyday at the start of the 17th century, was a confident metropolis, a place of creativity and military power. In 1600 a Dutch visitor described an impressive central avenue seven or eight times broader than Warmoesstraat, one of the main shopping streets in Amsterdam, and a palace for the Oba
, or head of the ruling dynasty, “so large, that you can feel no End”. The walls were decorated with ivory sculptures and elaborate metal plaques depicting hunters, musicians, courtiers and animals including leopards, elephants and crocodiles.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Sends Three Benin Bronzes Home To Nigeria

The plaques, produced in what is now Nigeria, were looted during the British military occupation and have been in museums and a private collection since 1897.

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KUOW - Metropolitan Museum of Art Sends Three Benin Bronzes Home To Nigeria

Junior Court Official is one of two 16th-century plaques produced at the Court of Benin that will be returned to Nigeria by the Met.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Sends Three Benin Bronzes Home To Nigeria
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Beautiful bronze sculptures and castings from West Africa have long been exhibited in some of the world's most august institutions, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Wednesday it's returning three of these artworks to Nigeria. They include two 16th-century brass plaques created at the Court of Benin, and a brass head produced in Ife around the 14th century.

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Benin Bronzes: New York's The Metropolitan Museum of Art to return three African artworks to Nigeria

Two 16th-century brass plaques and a 4th-century brass Ife Head will be returned to Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments

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Benin Bronzes: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to return three African artworks to Nigeria

Two 16th-century brass plaques and a fourth-century brass Ife head will be returned to Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments

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Should Britain send back the Benin Bronzes?

The Benin Bronzes have a special status in the debate over cultural artefacts taken during the colonial era. Author Barnaby Phillips explains why, and why the British Museum's approach to the debate is unsustainable

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Benin bronzes may finally be headed home. But what awaits them?

European museums and governments are finally ready to return Nigeria's looted artifacts. Locals hope a new museum built to house ancient art can spark an African renaissance.

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Benin Bronzes Repatriated from Met Will Be Sent Back To Nigeria : NPR

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Junior Court Official is one of two 16th-century plaques produced at the Court of Benin that will be returned to Nigeria by the Met.
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Beautiful bronze sculptures and castings from West Africa have long been exhibited in some of the world's most august institutions, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Wednesday it's returning three of these artworks to Nigeria. They include two 16th-century brass plaques created at the Court of Benin, and a brass head produced in Ife around the 14th century.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Sends Three Benin Bronzes Home To Nigeria

Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Beautiful bronze sculptures and castings from West Africa have long been exhibited in some of the world's most august institutions, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Wednesday it's returning three of these artworks to Nigeria. They include two 16th-century brass plaques created at the Court of Benin, and a brass head produced in Ife around the 14th century.
"The ... plaques produced at the Court of Benin,
Warrior Chief and
Junior Court Official, were among the works removed from the Royal Palace in 1897 during the British military occupation of Benin," the Met explained in a statement. (Borders have shifted over the years and the erstwhile Kingdom of Benin, from whence these artworks originated, is in what's now southern Nigeria.)

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The Benin Bronzes Aren't Just Ancient History. Meet the Contemporary Casters Who Are Still Making Them Today

The Benin Bronzes Aren’t Just Ancient History. Meet the Contemporary Casters Who Are Still Making Them Today
In an excerpt from his new book, Barnaby Phillips visits contemporary casters who are still making bronzes using ancient techniques.
May 13, 2021
Craftsman finishing polishing the last details of a bronze statuette made using the technique of lost wax casting, used in the kingdom of Benin before the European colonizers arrived. Photo by Jorge Fernández/LightRocket via Getty Images.
, Barnaby Phillips, a journalist specializing in African affairs, looks at the past and future of the contested sculptures, thousands of which were stolen during a 19th-century punitive British raid of the Benin Royal Palace in modern-day Nigeria. In this excerpt, Phillips visits contemporary casters who are still making bronzes using ancient techniques, but largely working from images, given that their heritage is held in museums abroad.

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