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Wages advance slip
Description:
Document: Wages advance slip for a sailor on the ship the Fame . Sailors going to Africa were paid two months wages in advance. They used the money to pay off debts or to equip themselves for the 12 month voyage.
Date: 24 March 1792
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:CO 107/6
Preserving pan
Description:
This kind of pan known as a Guinea kettle was made in several different sizes for both the home and African markets. This kettle is a 19th century example, in castware rather than batteryware.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:T 7941
Bill for pilot
Description:
Document: Bill for the pilot Josiah Richards and tow boats for the ship the Fame . The Avon was not an easy river to navigate. Pilots, most of whom came from Pill in Bristol, took ships in and out of the river. Ships could anchor at Hungroad, near Pill, or at Kingroad, in the Severn Channel, waiting for the tide or for the crew to come aboard. The ship needed a pilot from the harbour in Bristol out to Lundy Island.
Date: April 11 1792
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:CO 107/6
Model of a slave ship.
Description:
Model of a slave ship.
With thanks to the Beacon, Whitehaven,Copeland Borough Council for the use of this item.
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright The Beacon
Brass plaque from Benin
Description:
Brass plaque from Benin. Illustrates organised social system. Chief on horseback, supported by two attendants.
� Copyright The British Museum
Copyright: Copyright British Museum
Loanga
Description:
Loanga, the capital of Angola, Africa,from Olfert Dapper’s New Description of African Countries , 1668.
Reproduced with kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University library.
Date: 1668
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Bambara chief and slave
Description:
Figure of a Bambara chief attended by a slave. Slavery within Africa was more like serfdom than chattel slavery. In a royal household, slaves might do important work and become rich and influential themselves. Others, however, might find themselves worked to an early death in the gold mines.
Date: unknown
Copyright: University of Newcastle
Musical instrument
Description:
Musical instrument, stringed resonator made from a gourd, Bauchi Plateau, N. Nigeria.
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:E 5247
Head of an oba
Description:
Head of an oba (king), from the Edo people of Benin, West Africa, mid to late 16th century. When each oba died, a shrine was made in his memory. Brass heads like this one were placed on the shrine, alongside ivory tusks amd other items. 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
Date: mid to late 16th century
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Object ID:Ea 7821
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