Ivory salt cellar showing Europeans
Painting of Afonso de Albuquerque
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Painting of Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese general and empire-builder.
Visit the site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_de_Albuquerque#mediaviewer/File:Afonso_de_Albuquerque_(with_Santiago_cloak).jpgBrass manilla
Brass manilla; probably AD 1800s.
Brass plaque
Brass plaque showing the Oba with kneeling supporters and Europeans: the European figure on the right holds a manilla; AD 1500s – 1600s.
Brass figure of a European
Brass figure of a European, probably Portuguese, with a musket. He wears early sixteenth-century military clothing, but the style of his musket dates to the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. The figure was probably placed on an altar in the Oba’s palace.
Brass plaque showing a Portuguese trader
Ivory mask
Ivory mask decorated with heads of Portuguese. For more information see the following link.
Information about the ivory mask above
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Visit the site https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/ivory-mask/YwEcUb_gRSUFrwPortuguese trade routes
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Map showing Portuguese trade routes in the AD 1400s and 1500s.
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Tribal Eye video narrated by David Attenborough. Excerpt showing a brass plaque showing a meeting between the Oba and Queen Elizabeth II (29:45-30.25); excerpt on Europeans on the brass plaques: 32:33-34:36.
See this video on youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2sU3zTVkI4
Outside the classroom
Manchester Museum
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Visit the site http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow
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Visit the site http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/kelvingrove/Pages/default.aspxRoyal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
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