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Hand-held Clapper with Bird of Prophecy
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This work is one of the bronze, ivory and wooden artworks broadly known as the “Benin Bronzes."
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
The royal palace Benin City; probably taken by British forces during the Punitive Expedition 1897. Lois Dailey Orswell Pomfret Center CT by 1972 gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums 1988
The bronze ivory and wooden artworks broadly known as the “Benin Bronzes” were taken from Benin City as part of the British Punitive Expedition of 1897 and dispersed to private collections and museums around the world. The Harvard Art Museums acknowledge the violence and trauma of the Expedition and understand that the presence of this cultural material in Western museums is experienced as continued injustice by descendent communities.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum The Lois Orswell Collection
Title: Hand-held Clapper with Bird of Prophecy
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This work is one of the bronze, ivory and wooden artworks broadly known as the “Benin Bronzes.
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