Autel
Photographie
- Type d'objet : Photographie
- Photographe : Reginald Kerr Granville (décédé en 1912) ; Réalise le contretype : Maurice Rigal (actif années 1930) ;
- Géographie : Afrique – Afrique occidentale – Nigéria
- Date : c.1890-1903 : date de prise de vue initiale
- Matériaux et techniques : Tirage sur papier baryté monté sur carton
- Dimensions et poids : Dimensions du montage : 22,5 x 29,5 cm
- Donateur : Maurice Rigal ;
- Précédente collection : Musée de l'Homme (Photothèque) ;
- Exposé : Non
- Numéro de gestion : PP0072327
Description
Reproduction photographique d'une illustration publiée dans Henry Ling Roth (1854-1925), "Great Benin ; its customs, art and Horrors", Halifax, Eng., F. King & Sons, Ltd, 1903, fig.75, p.70. La légende est : "Altar in Benin City with peeled wands, earthenware pots (figs 79 and 80) and carved staves (fig.76). "The small wands peeled white, figured in many, perhaps, of the rites, and were laid upon the altar afterwards. In Cheetham's time they were carried in front of the Europeans. The king's method of closing a road was to place two such wands crossed in front of its entrance. Once, in my time, he wished to close the roadfrom Igoro to Ikro, and put up the wands, but his orderswere disobeyed. He wished to kill a man, and lay him in the path to make the closure respected, but I asked him not to do so, and the wands not being sufficient, they were finally taken away and the road was open." (C.Punch). From a photograph by Mr. R. K. Granville".Légende portée sur le carton de montage de la Photothèque du musée de l’Homme : "Autel. Cf. Ling Roth. Great Benin. fig. 75."