Collecting Abeokuta: Tracing the provenance of Egba material culture from the Church Missionary Society Yoruba Mission

Dadzie, Benjamina Efua (2025) Collecting Abeokuta: Tracing the provenance of Egba material culture from the Church Missionary Society Yoruba Mission. Material Religion, 21 (3). pp. 268-289. ISSN 1743-2200

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Abstract

The Reverend Henry Townsend (1815–1886) was a missionary of the Church Missionary Society who worked in the city-state of Abeokuta, in present day southwestern Nigeria, from 1846 to 1876. While there he gathered artifacts, some of which are now in the collection of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, in Exeter, England. This article is a study of part of this material culture, its trajectory from Abeokuta to Britain in the 1840s, and its use to create narratives of political power and Christian conversion in the context of the nineteenth century missionary encounter.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Funding information: This article is the outcome of ongoing research for doctoral research at the University of East Anglia, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership program.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	abeokuta,artifacts,collections,egba,handover,missionary,yoruba,visual arts and performing arts,religious studies ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1213
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	06 Aug 2025 15:30
Last Modified:	10 Aug 2025 06:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100087
DOI:	10.1080/17432200.2025.2505313

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