Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Ancestral Shrine, Royal Palace, Benin City, Nigeria
1891 May
Nigeria; Africa
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Cataloged as “Ancestral Shrine, Royal Palace, Benin City, Nigeria” (Photographs; Albumen prints; Cabinet prints).
- Collection
- Ancestral Shrine, Royal Palace, Benin City, Nigeria
- Catalog date
- 1891 May
- Recorded places
- Nigeria; Africa
- Recorded subjects
- Altars
- Format and extent
- 1 Albumen print (cabinet print, 12.7 x 17.8 cm. (5 x 7 inches) (without mount))
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1993-014, Item EEPA 1993-0014
Collection: Ancestral Shrine, Royal Palace, Benin City, Nigeria