Newspaper article "Benin bronzes “

This newspaper clipping was found in the papers associated with the publication “Altertümer von Benin im Hamburgischen Museum für Völkerkunde” (Antiquities from Benin at Hamburg’s Museum für Völkerkunde) by Karl Hagen, who worked at the museum as a scientist beginning in 1890. It demonstrates the incredulous wonder provoked by the “Benin Bronzes” in Europe and North America. The content and formulation of the article testify to the colonial and racist prejudices that underlay this reaction.