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Zurich’s Museum Rietberg has transferred ownership of eleven objects from the Kingdom of Benin held by Museum Rietberg to the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Museum Rietberg won’t be sending them all back to Nigeria; two will be repatriated, while nine will remain on loan in the musuem’s collections. The items are just a few of the thousands linked to a British raid on Benin City in 1897, and the looted treasures made their way into museum collections around the world.
Among the objects are those pictured above: a bracelet with…
