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Jane Weekes
Description:
Portrait: John Pinney’s Wife, Jane Weekes.The daughter of a Nevis planter. John Pinney was a plantation owner and sugar merchant.
Lent from a private collection to Bristol Museums.
Copyright: Lent to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Photograph of a house on Nevis
Description:
This photograph shows all that remains of the house built almost certainly by Peter Thomas Huggins, son of Edward Huggins between 1838 and 1845.Edward Huggins bought Mountravers, the plantation on the Caribbean island of Nevis, from John Pinney in 1808. The ruins of Huggins’ Great House still stand on Nevis.
Creator: Elizabeth Rhodes
Date: 2001
Copyright: Elizabeth Rhodes
Photograph of Nevis map
Description:
Photograph of the tourist map of Nevis.
Creator: Bruce Williams
Date: 2002
Copyright: Copyright Bruce Williams (BARAS)
Plan and sections of brass smelter
Description:
Plan and sections of brass smelter, from Diderot, Dictionnaire Des Sciences, 1762. Brassmaking was an important trade in Bristol and was tied to the African slave trade as much as to domestic markets.
Creator: Diderot
Date: 1762
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Head of an Oba or king
Description:
Head of an oba (king), from the Edo people of Benin, West Africa, mid to late 16th century. When each oba died, a head would be created to be placed on an ancestral shrine alongside other objects. The heads served as mediums through which ancestors could ask the spirits of their descendants for the wealth of the kingdom. Brass was highly valued by the Edo, as it was rare and expensive. As it was red and shiny when new, it signified beauty. As the metal never corrodes or rusts it also signified the continuity of kingship. The head is depicted wearing a coral crown, part of the royal regalia, which could only be worn by the king. All the objects in the oba’s palace were removed by a British naval expedition in 1898. Benin came under British control and the Oba was sent into exile.
Creator: Edo of Benin
Date: mid to late 16th century
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:Ea 7821
Iles map of Nevis
Description:
Iles map of the sugar plantations on Nevis 1871.
Creator: Bruce Williams
Date: 1871
Copyright: Elizabeth Rhodes
Object ID:Object Id: ImagesBruceSMIles map of Nevis 1871
A brass skillet or saucepan
Description:
Description: A brass skillet or saucepan, intact on the patio of the Golden Rock Hotel in Nevis, made in Bristol showing the name of the firm Wasbrough.
Creator: Bruce Williams
Date: 2003
Copyright: Elizabeth Rhodes
Object ID:Bwnevisimagesapril DSCF0016
Portrait, Queen Elizabeth I
Description:
Queen Elizabeth I became concerned with the increasing number of black people in England, and in 1596 she ordered that all black people be deported to Spain and Portugal, to be exchanged for English prisoners of war. She had to repeat the order in 1601, ordering her subjects to deliver up their Negroes and blackamoores.
The language used to describe people of African descent in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries is unacceptable in today’s terms. We cannot avoid using this language in its original context. To change the words would impose 20th century attitudes on history.
Creator: British School
Date: c.1570s
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Map of Cumberland
Description:
Map of Cumberland in the north of England, from Carys Travellers Companion.
Creator: Carys
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:R106
Equitorial Guinea flag flying in Moka
Description:
Equitorial Guinea flag flying in the village of Moka, on the Island of Bioko, Equitorial Guinea. This village is the homeland of the Bubi people.
Equatorial Guinea was a former Spanish colony.
Date: 2002
Copyright: Copyright Beaula McCalla
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