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Brilliant Booty. A great center of African art was the ancient kingdom of Benin, located in the south of present-day Nigeria. Its people were notorious for their practice of the black-magic juju; human sacrifices were common. And though the Portuguese navigators who discovered the realm in 1472 tried to convert the natives to Christianity, the only relict that stuck when they left was the concept and practice of crucifixion. Amidst a dark rain forest, Benin became a terrifying, slave-trading, yet advanced civilization centered in a city with 30 broad streets surrounded by ramparts ten feet high...
Eighteen years after the British had destroyed the Zulu nation, they crushed Benin. Objecting to the sale of slaves and human sacrifice, a consul general set out in 1897 with eight men to halt the annual ritual of slaughter; they were massacred. In retaliation, a battalion of British soldiers, 1,200 strong, destroyed Benin a month later and brought out as booty 1,000 bronze plaques, which were sold off in London to benefit dis abled veterans. It was the first major appearance of Africana in Europe...
...Salisbury show is the most comprehensive collection of African art ever assembled. It ranges from the terra-cotta pieces of the Nok culture. 2,000 years ago. through the supremely realistic Ife portrait heads of the 8th to the 14th century, to the Benin empire bronzes that mark the turning point from realism to expressionism between the 15th and the 19th centuries. The most recent pieces of traditional art in the show are wood carvings 50 years old. The older things have survived because they are made of terra cotta. bronze, iron or brass; millions of wood sculptures have been...
...Shea, lf 0 0 0 Harshbarger, c 4 0 0 Del Rossi, p 4 1 1 -- -- -- Totals 33 6 7 * Sacrificed for Karp in sixth Tufts (1) ab r h Gillespie, 2b 4 0 0 French, cf 4 0 0 Peckham, c 4 0 2 Benin, 1b 4 0 1 Hess, 3b 3 1 2 Pfannenstiehl, rf 4 0 0 Appleton, lf 3 0 2 Guidi, ss 3 0 0 Loeb, p 2 0 0 Tarlow, p 0 0 0 * * Pelzer 1 0 0 Babel, p 0 0 0 -- -- -- Totals 32 1 7 * * Grounded out for Tarlow in eighth Harvard...
Harvard managed to squelch a brief threat by Tufts in the sixth. With two out and two men on, Jumbo first sacker Benin took too long a lead off first base and found himself in a pickle. Crimson first baseman Bernstein tagged him as he tried to retreat...