A-level: Benin Plaques

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Benin Plaques, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Edo peoples, Benin kingdom, Nigeria c. 1530-1570 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). Speakers: Dr. Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch, Teel Curator of African and Oceanic Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Dr. Beth Harris

How to impress your courtiers: a lesson from the Kingdom of Benin

Additional resources

Benin plaques at the MFA, Boston

Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch, The Benin Plaques A 16th Century Imperial Monument, Oxford: Routledge, 2018

Benin plaque: the oba with Europeans on BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects

Cite this page as: Dr. Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch and Dr. Beth Harris, "A-level: Benin Plaques," in Smarthistory, January 25, 2019, accessed June 8, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/benin-plaques-2/.