RT Article
T1 Collecting Abeokuta: Tracing the Provenance of Egba Material Culture from the Church Missionary Society Yoruba Mission
JF Material religion
VO 21
IS 3
SP 268
OP 289
A1 Dadzie, Benjamina Efua
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1932067000
AB The Reverend Henry Townsend (1815–1886) was a missionary of the Church Missionary Society who worked in the city-state of Abeokuta, in present day southwestern Nigeria, from 1846 to 1876. While there he gathered artifacts, some of which are now in the collection of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, in Exeter, England. This article is a study of part of this material culture, its trajectory from Abeokuta to Britain in the 1840s, and its use to create narratives of political power and Christian conversion in the context of the nineteenth century missionary encounter.
K1 handover
K1 Collections
K1 artifacts
K1 Yoruba
K1 Egba
K1 Abeokuta
K1 Missionary
DO 10.1080/17432200.2025.2505313