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Use the search feature of your browser to locate items.  You can find many of these items in our library or through Interlibrary Loan.  If you are interested in an item that is not in the library, check with me.  I may be able to lend it to you.  [Y] indicates that I have it, [X] that I have a photocopy, and [N] that I do not have it.  A more extensive bibliography on Benin is maintained by Dr. Charles Gore.

Adams, J. (1960). Benin in Decline. Nigerian Perspectives: an historical anthology. T. Hodgkin. London, Oxford University Press: 175-176. [N]

Adediran, B. (1991). "Pleasant Imperialism: Conjectures on Benin Hegemony in Eastern Yorubaland." African Notes 15(1&2): 83-95. [N]

Afigbo, A. E. (1981). "The Bini Mirage in the History of South Central Nigeria." Nigeria Magazine 137. [N]

African Arts (1997). "Praise songs to Oba Ovonramwen." African Arts 30(3): 42-43. [Y]

Agbaje-Williams, B., Jean-Baptiste (1987). "Ife, Old Oyo and Benin: A Chronological Consideration in the Light of Recent Archaeological Work at Old Oyo." Nigeria Magazine 55(4). [N]

Agbontaen, K. A. (1990). "Benin City Arts and Craft Heritage." Nigeria Magazine 58. [N]

Agbontaen, K. A. (1995). "Art, Power Politics and the Interrelatedness of Social Classes in Pre-colonial Benin." Saint Petersburg Journal of African Studies 4. [N]

Agbontaen, K. A. (1997). "An assessment of four centuries (15th-19th) of Benin art production in evaluating the role of the craft guild system in Benin polity." African Study Monographs (Kyoto) 18(1): 45-57. [N]

Agbontaen, K. A., A. A. Ogunje, et al. (1996). "The Impluvium-Courtyard (Oto-Eghodo) in Indigenous Benin Architecture." Nigerian Field 61. [N]

Aisien, E. (1986). Iwu, the body markings of the Edo people. Benin City, Aisien Publishers. [Y]

Aisien, E. (1991). Erediauwa, Prince of Benin. Benin City, Nigeria, Aisien Publishers. [N]

Aisien, E. (1991). Stories from Old Benin: Erediauwa, Prince of Benin. Benin City, Asien Publishers. [N]

Aisien, E. (1995). Benin city: the Edo state capital. Benin City, Aisien. [N]

Akenzua, E. (1960). "Benin 1897; a Bini's View." Nigeria Magazine 65: 177-190. [Y]

Akenzua, E. (1965). "The Oba's Palace in Benin." Nigeria Magazine 87: 244-251. [Y]

Akinola, G. A. (1976). "The Origin of the Eweka Dynasty of Benin: A Study in the Use and Abuse of Oral Traditions." Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 8(3). [N]

Akintoye, S. A. (1969). "The North-eastern Yoruba Districts and the Benin Kingdom." Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 4: 539-552. [N]

Akpata, A. (1937). "Notes on Altars and Bronze Heads of Benin." Ethnologia Cranmorensis 1: 5-10. [N]

Allman, R. (1897). "With the punitive expedition to Benin City." Lancet 2(3): 43-44. [N]

Aniakor, C. C. (1997). ""Do all cultural roads lead to Benin?" The missing factor in Benin and related art studies: a conceptual view." Paideuma 43: 301-311. [N]

Ankerman, B. (1922). "Gemusterte Raphiagwebe vom Untern Niger." Baessler Archiv 6: 204-206. [N]

Babayemi, S. O. (1979). "The Oyo, Ife, Benin Relationship Reconsidered." African Notes 8(2): 15-26. [X]

Bacon, R. H. S. (1897). Benin, the city of blood. London, New York,, Arnold. [N]

Balfour, H. (1903). "'Thunderbolts' Celts from Benin." Man 3: 182-3. [X]

Barkan, E. (1997). "Aesthetics and Evolution: Benin art in Europe." African Arts 30(3): 36-41, 92-93. [Y]

Barnes, S. T., Ed. (1989). Africa's Ogun: Old World and New. Bloomington, Indiana University Press. [Y]

Barnes, S. T. and P. Ben-Amos (1983). "Benin, Oyo and Dahomey: Warfare, State Building and Sacralization of Iron in West African History." Expedition 25(2): 5-15. [Y]

Barnes, S. T. and P. Ben-Amos (1989). Ogun: the empire builder. Africa's Ogun: old world and new. S. T. Barnes. Bloomington, Indiana University Press: 39-64. [Y]

Bassani, E. (1994). "Additional Notes on the Afro-Portuguese Ivories." African Arts 27(3). [Y]

Bassani, E. (1995). Cavalli e cavalieri nell'arte dell' Africa Occidentale. Cavalieri dell'Africa: storia, iconografia, simbolismo = Cavaliers d'Afrique: histoire, iconographie, symbolisme = Horsemen of Africa: history, iconography, symbolism. G. Pezzoli. Milano, Centro Studi Archeologia Africana: 9-25. [N]

Bates, O. (1917). "Benin Antiquities in the Peabody Museum." Varia Africana I. Harvard African Studies 1: 130-46. [N]

Beasley, H. G. (1937). "'Thunderbolts' Celts from Benin." Man 37: 137. [X]

Becroft, C. (1841). "On Benin and the Upper Course of the river Quorra, or Niger, and Account of a Visit to the Capital of Benin in the Delta of the Kwárá or Niger, in the year 1838." Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 11: 184-192. [X]

Beier, U. (1958). "Yoruba Enclave." Nigeria Magazine 58: 238-241. [Y]

Ben-Amos, D. (1967). "Ikponmwosa Osemwegie: A Young Bini Poet." Nigeria magazine 94: 250-252. [N]

Ben-Amos, D. (1967). "Story Telling in Benin." African Arts 1(1): 54-56, 58-59. [Y]

Ben-Amos, D. (1972). "The Elusive Audience of the Benin Storyteller." The Journal of the Folklore Institute 9. [N]

Ben-Amos, D. (1975). Sweet words: storytelling events in Benin. Philadelphia, Institute for the Study of Human Issues. [Y]

Ben-Amos, D. (1978). The Modern Local Historian in Africa. Folklore in the Modern World. R. Dorson. The Hague, Mouton: 327-343. [X]

Ben-Amos, D. (1987). "Animals in Edo Visual and Verbal Arts." Word & Image 3(3): 296-303. [X]

Ben-Amos Girshick, P. (1991). "A Note on a Lost Woodcarving Tradition From the Benin Kingdom (Research Note)." African Arts 24(2): 76-78, 92. [Y]

Ben-Amos, P. (1967). "The Bini Woodcarver: A Study of Handicrafts in Social Change." African Urban 2(2). [N]

Ben-Amos, P. (1971). Social change in the organization of wood carving in Benin City, Nigeria. Anthropology. Bloomington, Indiana University: 305 l. [N]

Ben-Amos, P. (1973). "Symbolism in Olokun Mud Art." African Arts 6(4): 28-31, 95. [Y(X)]

Ben-Amos, P. (1975). Professionals and Amateurs in Benin Court Carving. African Images: essays in African iconology. D. F. McCall and E. G. Bay. Boston, Boston University Press: 170-189. [N]

Ben-Amos, P. (1976). 'A la Recherche du Temps Perdu': On Being an Ebony-Carver in Benin. Ethnic and Tourist Arts: cultural expressions from the Fourth World. N. H. H. Graburn. Berkeley, University of California Press: 320-33. [Y]

Ben-Amos, P. (1976). "Men and Animals in Benin Art." Man N.S. 2(2): 243-252. [X]

Ben-Amos, P. (1977). Benin Cloth, Brass and Beads. Columbia University Seminar on Primitive and Pre-Columbian Art- African Topics. [X]

Ben-Amos, P. (1977). "Pidgin Languages and Tourist Arts." Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication 4(2): 128-139. [X]

Ben-Amos, P. (1978). "Owina N'Ido: Royal Weavers of Benin." African Arts 11(4): 48-53, 95. [Y(X)]

Ben-Amos, P. (1980). The Art of Benin. New York, Thames and Hudson. [Y]

Ben-Amos, P. (1981). "There are Three Things in the Palace that are threatening": royal ritual symbolism in Benin. Seminar on Visual Art as Social Commentary in Africa, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. [N]

Ben-Amos, P. (1983). In Honor of Queen Mothers. The Art of power, the power of art: studies in Benin iconography. P. Ben-Amos, A. G. Rubin and University of California Los Angeles. Museum of Cultural History. Los Angeles, Museum of Cultural History UCLA: 79-83. [Y]

Ben-Amos, P. (1983). Introduction: history and art in Benin. The Art of power, the power of art: studies in Benin iconography. P. Ben-Amos, A. G. Rubin and University of California Los Angeles. Museum of Cultural History. Los Angeles, Museum of Cultural History UCLA: 13-16. [Y]

Ben-Amos, P. (1983). The Powers of Kings: symbolism of a Benin ceremonial stool. The Art of power, the power of art: studies in Benin iconography. P. Ben-Amos, A. G. Rubin and University of California Los Angeles. Museum of Cultural History. Los Angeles, Museum of Cultural History UCLA: 51-58. [Y]

Ben-Amos, P. (1983). "Who is the Man in the Bowler Hat? Emblems of Identity in Benin Royal Art." Baessler Archive 31: 162-183. [X]

Ben-Amos, P. (1984). Royal Art and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Benin. Iowa Studies in African Art, vol. 1. C. D. Roy. Des Moines, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa: 67-86. [Y]

Ben-Amos, P. (1986). "Artistic Creativity in the Benin Kingdom." African Arts 19(3): 60-63, 83-84. [Y]

Ben-Amos, P. (1991). "Sculptures & bronzes sont nos photographies d'antan: art et histoire au royaume de Benin, Nigeria = Carvings and castings are our olden day photographs: art and history in the Benin kingdom, Nigeria." Arts d'Afrique Noire 80: 29-42. [X]

Ben-Amos, P. (1995). The Art of Benin. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press. [Y]

Ben-Amos, P., A. G. Rubin, et al., Eds. (1983). The Art of power, the power of art: studies in Benin iconography. Monograph series /Museum of Cultural History, UCLA ; no. 19. Los Angeles, Museum of Cultural History UCLA. [Y]

Blaauw, M., H. Postma, et al. (2005). "An attempt to date an antique Benin bronze using neutron resonance capture analysis." Applied Radiation and Isotopes 62(3): 429-433. [N]

Blackmun, B. W. (1983). Reading a Royal Altar Tusk. The Art of Power, The Power of Art: studies in Benin Iconography. A. Rubin and P. Ben-Amos. Los Angles, Museum of Cultural History, UCLA: 59-70. [Y(X)]

Blackmun, B. W. (1983). Remembering the Warrior Kings. The Art of power, the power of art: studies in Benin iconography. P. Ben-Amos, A. G. Rubin and University of California Los Angeles. Museum of Cultural History. Los Angeles, Museum of Cultural History UCLA: 49-50. [Y]

Blackmun, B. W. (1983). Wall Plaque of a Junior Titleholder Carrying an Ekpokin. The Art of power, the power of art: studies in Benin iconography. P. Ben-Amos, A. G. Rubin and University of California Los Angeles. Museum of Cultural History. Los Angeles, Museum of Cultural History UCLA: 84-86. [Y]

Blackmun, B. W. (1984). Art as Statecraft: A King's Justification in Ivory: a carved tusk from Benin. Genève, Musée Barbier-Müller. [Y]

Blackmun, B. W. (1984). The iconography of carved altar tusks from Benin, Nigeria. Art and Art History. Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles: 3 v. (xxiv, 695 leaves). [N]

Blackmun, B. W. (1987). "Royal and Nonroyal Benin: Distinctions in Igbesanmwan Ivory Carving." Iowa Studies in African Art 2: 81-115. [Y]

Blackmun, B. W. (1988). "From Trader to Priest in Two Hundred Years: The Transformation of a Foreign Figure on Benin Ivories." Art Journal 47(2): 128-38. [Y]

Blackmun, B. W. (1990). "Obas' Portraits in Benin." African Arts 23(3): 61-69, 102-04. [Y]

Blackmun, B. W. (1991). "The Face of the Leopard: its significance in Benin court art." Allen Memorial Art Museum bulletin (Oberlin, OH) 44(2): 24-35. [X]

Blackmun, B. W. (1991). "Who Commissioned the Queen Mother Tusks? A Problem in the Chronology of Benin Ivories." African Arts 24(2): 54-65, 90-91. [Y]

Blackmun, B. W. (1992). The elephant and its ivory in Benin. Elephant: the animal and its ivory in African culture. D. H. Ross. Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles: 163-183, 397-413. [N]

Blackmun, B. W. (1994). "History and Statecraft on a Tusk from Old Benin." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 84(4): 86-115. [X]

Blackmun, B. W. (1997). Ancestral Kings and Queens on Benin's Sacred Ivories. Kulte, Künstler, Könige in Afrika: Tradition und Moderne in Südnigeria. Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum., S. Eisenhofer and H. Dimt. Linz, Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum: 63-80. [X]

Blackmun, B. W. (1997). "Continuity and Change: the ivories of Ovonramwen and Eweka II." African Arts 30(3): 68-79, 94-96. [Y]

Blackmun, B. W. (1997). "Icons and Emblems in Ivory: sacred art from the palace of Old Benin." Museum Studies 23(2): 149-163. [Y(X)]

Blier, S. P. (1993). "Imaging Otherness in Ivory: African Portrayals of the Portuguese ca. 1492." Art Bulletin 75(3): 375-396. [Y(X)]

Boisragon, A. M. (1897). The Benin massacre (by One of its Two Survivors). London, Methuen. [N]

Bondarenko, D. M. (1994). Precolonial Benin: Man, Society, Authority and the Structure of the Society. State, City and Society. J. Sabloff and M. Lal. New Delhi. [N]

Bondarenko, D. M. (2003). "Advent of the Second (Oba) Dynasty: Another Assessment of a Benin History Key Point." History in Africa 30: 63-85. [X]

Bondarenko, D. M. and P. M. Roese (1999). "Benin prehistory: the origin and settling down of the Edo." Anthropos 94(4): 542-552. [X]

Bowles, M. (2000). "The King, the Brit, the Bronze and the Cartoon." Journal of museum ethnography 12: 133-146. [X]

Bradbury, R. E. (1959). "Chronological Problems in the Study of Benin History." Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 1(4). [N]

Bradbury, R. E. (1971). Patrimonialism and Gerontocracy in Benin Political Culture. Man in Africa. M. Douglas and P. M. Kaberry. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books: 17-37. [Y]

Bradbury, R. E. (1973). Ezomo's Ikegobo and the Benin Cult of the Hand. Benin Studies. R. E. Bradbury. London, Oxford University Press: 251-270. [Y(X)]

Bradbury, R. E., P. C. Lloyd, et al. (1964). The Benin kingdom and the Edo-speaking peoples of south-western Nigeria. London,, International African Institute. [N]

Bradbury, R. E. and P. Morton-Williams, Eds. (1973). Benin Studies. London, published for the International African Institute by Oxford University Press. [Y]

Braunholtz, H. J. (1922). "Two Bronze Plaques from Benin." Man 22: 161-162. [X]

British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service., D. Collison, et al. (1976). Kingdom of Bronze. [New York], Time-Life Video. [N]

British Museum (1991). Man and Metal in Ancient Nigeria. London, British Museum. [N]

British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography., C. H. Read, et al. (1899). Antiquities from the city of Benin and from other parts of West Africa in the British museum. London, British Museum. [N]

British Museum. Dept. of Ethnography. and W. B. Fagg (1978). Divine Kingship in Africa. London, Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications Limited. [Y]

Burde, R. d. l. (1972). "Ancestral Ram's Heads of the Edo-Speaking People." African Arts 6(1): 28-34, 88. [X]

Campbell, K. F. (1981). "Le Leopard, Le Serpent et le Crocodile." Arts d'Afrique Noire 38: 16-28. [X]

Chamberlin, R. (1983). Loot! The Heritage of Plunder. New York, Facts-on-File. [X(excerpts)]

Chambers, L. (1983). Crocodiles. The Art of power, the power of art: studies in Benin iconography. P. Ben-Amos, A. G. Rubin and University of California Los Angeles. Museum of Cultural History. Los Angeles, Museum of Cultural History UCLA: 95. [Y]

Connah, G. (1963). "Archaeological Research in Benin City." Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 2(4): 465-478. [N]

Connah, G. (1964). Polished stone axes in Benin. Apapa, Printed by the Nigerian National Press. [Y]

Connah, G. (1966). "Summary of Research in Benin City and in Bornu." West African Archaeological Newsletter 5. [N]

Connah, G. (1967). "New light on the Benin City walls." Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 3(4): 593-609. [N]

Connah, G. (1968). "Radiocarbon Dates for Benin City and Further dates for Daima N.E. Nigeria." Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 4. [N]

Connah, G. (1972). "Archaeology in Benin." Journal of African History 8(1). [N]

Connah, G. and S. O. Abrigbede (1975). The archaeology of Benin: excavations and other researches in and around Benin City, Nigeria. Oxford, Clarendon Press. [Y]

Connah, G. and Nigeria. Federal Dept. of Antiquities. (1967). Benin City walls. Nigeria, Federal Dept. of Antiquities. [N]

Coote, J. and E. Edwards (1997). "Images of Benin at the Pitt Rivers Museum." African Arts 30(4): 26-35, 93. [Y]

Cordwell, J. M. (1952). Some Aesthetic Aspects of Yoruba and Benin Cultures. Evanston, Northwestern University. [N]

Craddock, P. T. (1985). "Medieval Copper Alloy Production and West African Bronze Analysis-- Part I." Archaeometry 27(1): 17-41. [X]

Craddock, P. T. and J. Picton (1986). "Medieval Copper Alloy Production and West African Bronze Analysis-- Part II." Archaeometry 28(1): 3-32. [X]

Crowe, D. W. (1975). "The geometry of African art II. A catalog of Benin patterns." Historia Mathematica 2(3): 253-271. [N]

Crownover, D. (1978). Nigeria, art and everyday life: a traveling exhibition of Nigerian sculpture sponsored by Lynch Museum Services. s.l., s.n. [Y]

Curnow, K. (1990). "Alien or Accepted: African Perspectives on the Western 'Other' in 15th and 16th Century Art." SVA Review 6(1): 38-44. [X]

Curnow, K. (1997). "The art of fasting: Benin's Ague ceremony." African Arts 30(4): 46-53, 93-94. [Y]

Curnow, K. (1997). "Prestige and the Gentleman: Benin's Ideal Man." Art Journal 56(2): 75-81. [Y]

Curnow, K. (1997). Singular Identities: The Benin Bronze Dwarves. Kulte, Künstler, Könige in Afrika: Tradition und Moderne in Südnigeria. Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum., S. Eisenhofer and H. Dimt. Linz, Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum: 83-96. [X]

Dapper, O. and A. Jones (1998). Olfert Dapper's description of Benin (1668). Madison, Wis., African Studies Program University of Wisconsin-Madison. [X]

Dark, P. J. C. (1961). "Two Bronze Heads from Benin." Scottish Art Review 8(1). [N]

Dark, P. J. C. (1973). "Brass Casting in West Africa." African Arts 6(4): 50-53, 94. [Y(X)]

Dark, P. J. C. (1973). An Introduction to Benin Art and Technology. Oxford, Clarendon Press. [Y]

Dark, P. J. C. (1975). Benin Bronze Heads: styles and chronology. African Images: essays in African iconology. D. F. McCall and E. G. Bay. Boston, Boston University: 25-103. [X]

Dark, P. J. C. (1982). An Illustrated Catalogue of Benin Art. Boston, G.K. Hall. [N]

Dark, P. J. C. (1983). A Benin Bronze Plaque of a Single Figure with Leopard. The Art of power, the power of art: studies in Benin iconography. P. Ben-Amos, A. G. Rubin and University of California Los Angeles. Museum of Cultural History. Los Angeles, Museum of Cultural History UCLA: 87-88. [Y]

Dark, P. J. C., E. W. Fuller, et al. (1962). The art of Benin; a catalogue of an exhibition of the A.W.F. Fuller and Chicago Natural History Museum collections of antiquities from Benin, Nigeria. Chicago. [Y]

Dark, P. J. C. and M. Hill (1971). Musical Instruments on Benin Plaques. Essays on Music and History in Africa. K. P. Wachsmann. Evanston, Northwestern University Press: 65-78. [Y(X)]

Darling, P. J. (1974). "The Eartworks of Benin." Nigerian Field 39(3). [N]

Darling, P. J. (1975). "The Earthworks of Benin: Some Cross-profiles." Nigerian Field 40(4). [N]

Darling, P. J. (1976). "Notes on the Earthworks of the Benin Empire." West African Journal of Archaeology 6. [N]

Darling, P. J. (1979). "Fieldwork Surveys in the Benin and Ishan Kingdoms." Nyame Akuma 15: 35-39. [N]

Darling, P. J. (1981). "The Ancient Canoe Port of Benin." Nigerian Field 46(1-2). [N]

Darling, P. J. (1984). Archaeology and history in southern Nigeria: the ancient linear earthworks of Benin and Ishan. Oxford, England, B.A.R. [N]

Dean, C. (1983). The Individual and the Ancestral: Ikegobo and Ukhurhe. The Art of power, the power of art: studies in Benin iconography. P. Ben-Amos, A. G. Rubin and University of California Los Angeles. Museum of Cultural History. Los Angeles, Museum of Cultural History UCLA: 33-40. [Y]

Deimel, C. and S. Dolz (2006). Schätze aus Afrike: Benin die Schenkungen Baessler; Ausstellung des Museums für Völkerkunde Dresden. Dresden, Dresden Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. [N]

Dickerson, J. H. (1979). "Benin Sculptor Idah: court art and personal style." Interdisciplinary Studies (Interdisciplinary Studies, Program State University of New Orleans) 2(2). [X]

Duchateau, A. (1993). Benin: royal art of Africa from the Museum fur Volkerkunde, Vienna. Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Munich, Prestel. [Y]

Dwyer, P. M. and F. Lugard (1903). "On the Thunder-Stones of Nigeria: Being Extracts from a Report by Dr. Pierce M. Dwyer, President of the Ilorin Province of Northern Nigeria." Man 3: 183-184. [N]

Ebighgbo, C. N. (2000). "Art of bronze casting in Nigeria : continuity and change." USO: Nigerian journal of art 3(1-2): 106-114. [X]

Ebohon, O. (1972). Cultural heritage of Benin. Benin City, Ebohon. [N]

Eboreime, O. J. (1985). "Coronation as drama: the installation of a Benin monarch as a study in the continuity of kingship: the transformation of tradition and the manufacture of ethnic identity." Cambridge anthropology 10(2): 41-53. [X]

Eboreime, O. J. (1996). "Oral traditions and pre-history of the Edo-speaking people of Benin up to 1515." Nigerian heritage: journal of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments 5: 89-99. [N]

Eboreime, O. J. (2000). Recontextualizing the Horniman's collection of Benin bronzes. Re-visions: new perspectives on the African collections of the Horniman Museum. K. Arnaut. London; [Coimbra, Portugal], Horniman Museum and Gardens; Museu Antropâologico da Universidade de Coimbra: 61-72. [X]

Economist (1997). Bronzed off: Should plundered art go back? Economist. 343: 86, 88-9. [X]

Egharevba, J. U. (1949). Benin law and custom. Benin City, J.U. Egharevba. [N]

Egharevba, J. U. (1960). A Short History of Benin. Ibadan, Ibadan University Press. [X]

Egharevba, J. U. (1968). A Short History of Benin. Ibadan, Ibadan University Press. [Y]

Egonwa, D. O. (1996). "Igbesanmwan Goes to Airport Road: a comment on contemporary Benin wood carving." USO: Nigerian journal of art 1(2): 61-65. [Y]

Eisenhofer, S. (1993). Höfische Elfenbeinschnitzerei im Reich Benin: Kontinuität oder Kontinuitätspostulat? München, Akademischer Verlag. [N]

Eisenhofer, S. (1994). "Was the Report of James Welsh (1588) the First Account of Afro-Portuguese Ivory Carving in Benin City?" History in Africa 21: 409-412. [X]

Eisenhofer, S. (1995). "The origins of the Benin kingship in the works of Jacob Egharevba." History in Africa 22: 141-163. [N]

Eisenhofer, S. (1996). "Jacob Egharevba Und Die Rekonstruktion Der Geschichte Des Königtums Von Benin (Nigeria) [Jacob Egharevba and the reconstruction of the history of the kingdom of Benin (Nigeria)]." Paideuma 42: 151-168. [N]

Eisenhofer, S. (1997). "The Benin kinglists: some questions of chronology." History in Africa 24: 139-156. [N]

Eisenhofer, S. (1997). "Felix von Luschan and early German-language Benin studies." African Arts 30(3): 62-67, 93-94. [Y]

Eisenhofer, S. (2000). Ife und die Chronologie der Benin-Bronzen. Mundus Africanus: ethnologische Streifzüge durch sieben Jahrtausende afrikanischer Geschichte: festschrift für Karl-Ferdinand Schaedler zum 70. Geburstag. Rahden, Leidorf: 47-54. [N]

Ejiofor, L. U. (1982). Igbo Kingdoms: power and control. Onitsha, Africana Publishing. [N]

Ekeh, P. P. (2000). "Contesting the History of Benin Kingdom." Research in African Literatures 31(3): 147-170. [X]

Ekeh, P. P. M. V. (2002). Ogiso times and Eweka times: a preliminary history of the Edoid complex of cultures. Benin City, Nigeria, Institute for Benin Studies. [N]

Elliott, K. (1973). Benin. Cambridge, University Press. [Y]

Eweka, E. B. (1989). The Benin monarchy: (origin and development). Benin City, Bendel Newspapers Co. [N]

Eweka, I. (1998). Dawn to dusk: folk tales from Benin. London; Portland, OR, Frank Cass. [N]

Eyo, E. (1977). "The Dialectics of Definitions: "Massacre" and "Sack" in the History of the Punitive Expedition." African Arts 30(3): 34-35. [Y]

Eyo, E., F. Willett, et al. (1980). Treasures of Ancient Nigeria. New York, Knopf. [Y]

Ezra, K. (1992). Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Y]

Fagg, W. B. (1950). "A Bronze Figure in Ife Style at Benin." Man 50: 98. [X]

Fagg, W. B. (1952). "A Nigerian Bronze Figure from the Benin Expedition." Man 52: 145. [X]

Fagg, W. B. (1952). "Tribal Sculpture and the Festival of Britain." Man 52: 73-76. [X]

Fagg, W. B. (1953). "The Allman Collection of Benin Antiquities." Man 53: 261. [X]

Fagg, W. B. (1957). "The Seligman Ivory Mask from Benin." Man(57): 113. [X]

Fagg, W. B. (1958). "On a Benin Bronze Plaque Representing a Girl." Man 58: 105. [X]

Fagg, W. B. (1986). Odudua's drum: sibylline books and some other problems in Ife and Benin studies. Arte in Africa. E. Bassani. Modena, Edizioni Panini: 30-32. [N]

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