Antique Works of Art from Benin - Couverture souple

Rivers, Augustus H.Pitt-

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0486233235 ISBN 13 : 9780486233239

Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 1976

Synopsis

With a New Introduction by Bernard Fagg. Texte en anglais / text in english ! Nombreuses photos n&b

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Présentation de l'éditeur

I ntroduction. the utmost rashness. Almost unarmed, neglecting all ordinary precautions, contrary to the advice of the neighbouring chiefs, and with the express prohibition of the King of Benin to advance, they marched straight into an ambuscade which had been prepared for them in the forest on each side of the road, and as their revolvers were locked up in their boxes at the time, they were massacred to a man with the exception of two. Captain Boisragon and Mr. Locke, who, after suffering the utmost hardships, escaped to theB ritish settlements on the coast to tell the tale. Within five weeks after the occurrence, a punitive expedition entered Benin, on 18th January, 1897, and took the town. The king fled, but was afterwards brought back and made to humiliate himself before his conquerers, and his territory annexed to theB ritish crown. The city was found in a terrible state of bloodshed and disorder, saturated with the blood of human sacrifices offered up to their Juju, or religious rites and customs, for which the place had long been recognised as the city of blood. What may be hereafter the advantages to trade resulting from this expedition it is difl cult to say, but the point of chief interest in connection with the subject ,of this paper was the discovery, mostly in the kings compound and the Juju houses, of numerous works of art in brass, bronze, and ivory, which, as before stated, were mentioned by theD utchman, Van Nyendaeel, as having been constructed by the people of Benin in 1700. These antiquities were brought away by the members of the punitive expedition and sold in London and elsewhere. Little or no account of them could be given by the natives, and as the expedition was as usual unaccompanied by any scientific explorer charged with the duty of making inquiries upon matters of historic and antiquarian interest, no reliable information about
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dover Publications Inc.
• Date d'édition: 1976
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0486233235
• ISBN 13: 9780486233239
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Soc. Agr. La Raia Ss; http://www.la-raia.it; ; Strada Monterotondo, 79; Novi Ligure; 15067; Italie