Metropolitan Museum of Art Sends Three Benin Bronzes Home To Nigeria

Junior Court Official is one of two 16th-century plaques produced at the Court of Benin that will be returned to Nigeria by the Met.

The plaques, produced in what is now Nigeria, were looted during the British military occupation and have been in museums and a private collection since 1897.

(Image credit: Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art)



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