Antique Works of Art from Benin

Name: Antique Works of Art from Benin
Author: Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

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Antique Works of Art from Benin Collected by Lieutenant-General Pitt Rivers

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Project Gutenberg

Release date

2013-10-22

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Art objects -- Nigeria -- Benin City -- Catalogs

About the author

Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

1827–1900

A soldier-scholar with a collector’s eye, this pioneering Victorian archaeologist helped change how ancient objects were excavated, organized, and displayed. His work linked careful field methods with a bigger story about human history and material culture.

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