Peabody Museum Statement on Material from Benin City

This object and others were taken from Benin City as part of the 1897 British Colonial Military Campaign on Benin. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology Museum acknowledges the violence and trauma of the Expedition and understands that the presence of this cultural material in Western museums is experienced as continued injustice by descendent communities. Fundamental to our contemporary goals of ethical stewardship, the Peabody Museum is committed to ongoing engagement and collaboration with descendant communities and examination of the practices that led to the collection of all cultural material in the collections.