Photograph of a Benin bronze plaque

Photograph of a Benin bronze plaque, from a a group of more than a thousand commemorative metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Benin Kingdom. (in modern-day Nigeria). The plaques form the best known examples of Benin art, created by the Edo people from the thirteenth to sixteenth century. In 1897, most of the plaques and other objects were removed by the British during a punitive expedition to establish imperial control

Benin Commemorative Establish Examples Modern-day Nigeria Plaque Plaques Punitive Removed Sixteenth Thirteenth Thousand

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