The Nation Newspaper Netherlands and the Benin Bronzes. Sunday, June 15, 2025 Advertise With Us E-paper. ... tusks, sculptures of Benin’s rulers, and an ivory mask made between the 15th and 19th ...

The Metropolitan Museum, which has some 160 items from Benin City, including a renowned ivory mask, has not made any announcements about restitution.

These are pendants worn by high ranking officials in Benin The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th Century and ...

Germany returned 22 Benin Bronzes — looted plaques and sculptures from Benin — to ... Taken with a miniature ivory mask during the ceremony for the return of the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria in ...

A Benin Ivory.-In Man for January, Capt. T. A. Joyce figures and describes a carved ivory ewer from Benin recently presented to the British Museum by the Christy Trustees. The ewer is made of a ...

This ivory relic reveals the colonial power dynamic between Benin and Portugal. As a display of his strength, the king of this West African kingdom allowed his artisans to create ivory saltcellars ...