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Index
Aberdeen, Ishbel 208–10
Aborigine’s Friend 33, 82, 91
Aborigine Protection Society 14, 32–3, 35–6, 82, 90–1, 107, 215
abstraction 48–9
aesthetics 43–57, 232 n. 1; see also bronzes, Benin, aesthetic debate around; fine art
African Association 35, 231 n. 36
AIDS epidemic 1–2, 226 n. 3
Alexander, Ziggy 85
Algeria see Franco-British Exhibition, ‘Algerian Pavilion’ at
Allen, Charles 68, 82–3
Allen, William, Reverend 147–8, 167–8, 172
Amazon Indians 219–20
American National Museum 48
Anthropological Institute 4, 46, 88, 109, 115, 122, 127, 132, 136, 141, 166, 185, 212, 214, 227 n. 14; see also Journal of the Anthropological Institute; Man
anthropology: 6, 132, 149
criminal 205
and degenerationist thesis 43, 48, 52, 55–7, 61, 204
and ethnographic displays 117, 120
and hybridity 218
and imperialism 60, 111
missionaries’ relation to 166, 173, 183, 185
professionalisation of 3–4, 7, 62, 107, 109–10, 121, 124–5, 127–8, 133, 140, 203, 214–15, 217
and racial classification 141, 155
and spectacle 87–8
and use of photography 136
anthropometry 56, 122, 134, 204, 215
Anti-Slavery Reporter 33, 68, 79, 97
Anti-Slavery Society 14, 32–3, 36, 68, 77, 82–3, 215, 236 n. 19
Arab people: 170; see also The French Exhibition, Arab troupe at; International Fire Exhibition, ‘Assouan Village’ at
Araeen, Rasheed 220
archaeology 52, 58, 120–1
Armenia 34
Ashanti: 16, 30, 36
material culture, in ethnographic collections 142, 147, 169
people, racial stereotyping of 17; see also ‘Briton, Boer and Black’ exhibition, ‘Ashanti Village’ at; Crystal Palace, ‘Ashanti Village’ at; Stanley and African Exhibition, Ashanti culture displayed at
Auchterlonie, T.B. 14–15, 23
Australia 191–2; see also Aborginal Australians
Bacon, R.H. 19–25
Benin, City of Blood 19, 23–4, 46
Baker, Samuel 68
Balfour, Henry 48, 53–5, 110, 119, 125–6, 129, 143, 145–6, 149, 167–8, 212
The Evolution of Decorative Art 49–52; 119, 145; see also Pitt Rivers Museum
Bankfield Museum, Halifax 44
Barber, Karin 108
Barnes, I.H. 171–2
Barnum and Bailey’s Great Show (1897): ‘Arab Village’ in 87, 96
and Soudan, representation of 87, 103
Bean na hÉireann 210
the Beaubourg 218
Belgium 69
Benin: 13–16, 19–20, 37
as ‘degenerate’ 11–17, 23, 24, 28–9, 38, 48, 56
press response to 33–8
material culture of 7, 8, 22–8, 38–9, 43–8, 56–7, 61, 140, 146–8, 150, 199, 203
River region 29–30; see also bronzes, Benin; Ovonramwen, Oba of Benin; Phillips expedition; punitive expedition; under specific ethnographic collections
Benin City: 9–12, 14–15, 19–23, 25, 27–8, 31, 33, 36–7, 43, 197, 223
Benin, City of Blood (Bacon) 19, 23–4, 46
Benin, the Surrounding Country, Inhabitants, Customs and Trade (Pinnock) 29
Bennett, Tony 3
Bentley, William Holman 150
Bentley, William M. 177
Pioneering in the Congo 169–70
Berlin Museum fiir Volkerkunde 59, 60
Bernal, Martin, Black Athena 58
Bethnal Green Museum, London 49, 120
biology 3, 54, 97, 117, 122, 141
Birdwood, George 53–4
Black and White 19
Black History Week, poster 225
Blaize, Richard Beale 39–40
Blyden, Edward 38–41, 130, 200
body, representation of 12–13, 97, 101, 122, 134, 139, 140, 143–5, 155, 160, 207, 215, 246, n. 71
Boer War 56, 83, 86, 189
Boers 103
Boisragon, Alan 16–18, 22, 43
Booth, Charles 189
Boyle, Hon. Sybil 29
Bradford International Exhibition (1904): 65, 103
‘Somali Village’ at 97, 102, 107
Brazil 219
British Empire League 187
British Museum, ethnographic collections: 1, 68, 129, 130, 153, 167, 178, 185
of Benin material culture 17, 23, 25, 27, 43, 46–7, 56–61, 223–4
from the Congo 148
guidebook to 89
of South Seas material 170, 184
and the steamer fund 82
and use of anthropological questionnaires 132–3
and use of photography 138–9; viii, 224; see also Museum of Mankind; Read, Charles Hercules
British New Guinea 136, 139, 155
‘Briton, Boer and Black in Savage South Africa’ exhibition (1899–1900): 84, 205
‘Dinka Village’ at 100–1
‘Eskimo Village’ at 86
‘Soudanese Village’ at 85, 95–9 passim, 103
‘Zulu Village’ at 86–9, 93–4, 96–7, 103
bronzes, Benin: 8, 9, 22, 221–3, 224, 228 n. 1
aesthetic debate around 7, 11, 17, 23–7, 43–8, 55–6, 61, 146, 148, 197, 216
and imperial competition 60
proposed Egyptian origin of 28, 37–8, 57–9, 62, 229 n. 57; see also British Museum; Horniman Free Museum; Mayer Museum; Pitt Rivers Museum
Buchan, John, The African Colony 204
Préster John 203
Bulletins of the Liverpool Museums 24–5, 44, 141–2
Burton, Richard 24, 46, 68
‘Bushmen’ culture 52, 145–6, 153
Cambridge Museum of General and Local Archaeology and Ethnology 139
Canada 191–2, 219–20
‘The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada’s First Peoples’ (1988) 219
cannibalism 17, 184, 197
Chamberlain, Joseph 90
Christian World 183–4
Christianity: 41, 82, 95, 100, 165, 177, 183–4, 202; see also missionaries
Church Missionary Society 162, 165–8, 170–8
‘Africa and the East’ exhibition (1909) 165, 175, 178
Churchill, Winston 163
Cleary, Edwin 90, 92
Cockburn, John 191
Coleman, James 203
colonialism: 1, 5, 7
and anthropology 3, 6, 121
Belgian 69
British 4, 7–28, 30–8, 52, 69, 80–1, 105, 107, 109, 131–2, 144, 191, 193, 196–8, 200–1, 203
as civilising force 2, 16–17, 29, 100
and evangelical missions 161–86
French 38, 191, 193–5, 198, 200–1, 206–7
German 38
Portuguese 46
as source of degeneracy 39, 40–1, 55
Colley March, H. 48, 152
Comité National des Expositions Coloniales 202
Congo: 66, 130, 132, 169
anthropological data from 133
material culture of 46, 52, 70, 147–8, 150, 155, 157, 170, 184–5, 233 n. 35; see also specific ethnographic collections; Stanley and African Exhibition, Congo material displayed at
Cook, Thomas 64
Crete 34
criminology 138; see also anthropology, criminal
Crowther, Samuel, Bishop 29, 39, 167, 176
Crystal Palace: 63
‘Ashanti Village’ at 86–8, 202
Da Gama, Vasco 37
Da Rocha, Moses 34–6, 38
Dahomey 16–17, 36, 47, 115, 157, 202
‘Dahomey Village’ 96
Daily Mail 197, 199
Daily Telegraph 103
Dalton, O.M. 27, 46–7, 56–7, 58–60, 110
Davin, Anna 93
Day of the Dead 58
de Moraes Farias 108
degeneracy: 39–42, 213
of Benin 11–15, 23–4, 28–9, 38
and criminology 138
and eugenics 122, 204, 216
degenerationist thesis 43, 48–57, 153–4, 232 n. 18
diaspora 220
Earl’s Court 65, 85–7, 91, 96, 103, 202
Edinburgh Evening News 34
Edo peoples: 9, 57
‘degeneracy’ of 10, 12, 22–3, 38, 56
material culture of 24–7, 46–7, 52; see also Ovonramwen, Oba of Benin
education 111–12, 123–7, 154–5, 157–8, 164–6, 170, 205, 221
Egypt 28, 37, 38, 57–9, 62, 103, 139
Egyptology 57–9, 62
Elliott, W.A. 140
Empire Educational League 124, 126
English art 55–6
English Illustrated Magazine 170, 185, 171
Eskimo culture 55, 153; see also ‘Briton, Boer and Black’ exhibition, ‘Eskimo Village’ at; Inuit culture
ethnography: 5, 22, 52–3, 60, 87, 109, 130, 132, 214–15, 217, 219, 223
and degenerationist thesis 61
and evolutionism 149–150, 156
for general reader 19, 21
in Germany 139
and missionaries 166, 184
professionalisation of 4, 57; see also museums, ethnographic collections in
Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens 158–9
eugenics 3, 56, 93, 97, 121–2, 204, 215–16, 238 n. 53
evolutionism: and construction of African history 47
and eugenics 122
in organizing ethnographic material 43, 49–52, 54, 117, 120, 127, 129, 133, 146, 149, 150–1, 154, 160, 177, 215
and racial types 81, 162, 204–5; see also degenerationist thesis
exhibitions, colonial: 64, 108, 112, 178, 214
catalogues for 71, 74–6
as dramas 85–98
passim 103, 107, 182
and feminism 99–100, 207, 211
and hybridity 217–21
and imperialism 63, 101, 105–6, 127, 189–91, 193, 195–7, 200
international 65
and miscegenation 91–3, 102; and national culture 187, 212–13
and ‘pavilions’ 191–2, 196
and ‘trophy’ format 71, 197–8
use of scientific data in 66, 81, 88, 204
vested interests in 68
and ‘villages’ 96, 113, 180, 191–2, 200, 202–3, 205, 207–8, 210; see also missionary exhibitions; specific exhibitions
exile, colonial policy of 32, 35
Eyo, Ekpo 223
feminism 99–100, 121, 207; see also Suffragettes
fetishes 131–2, 147–8, 170, 176, 184–5
Fiji 191
Fillis, Frank 92, 102
fine art 217, 232 n. 1; see also aesthetics
First World War 1, 2, 60, 154, 162
Fletcher, A.E. 35, 40–1, 184
Flinders Petrie, W. M. 58
folk culture 212
Forbes, H.O. 24–5, 44, 45
Foucault, Michel 6
Fox Bourne, Henry 33, 90
France 4, 5, 58, 187, 188–9
Franco-British Exhibition (1908): 188–90, 198–9
‘Algerian Pavilion’ at 191, 193, 200
‘Ceylonese Village’ at 191, 195, 212
Indian Pavilion’ at 191, 193, 195–6
‘Irish Village’ at 191–2, 207–13
‘Palace of Women’s Work’ at 211
racial hierarchy organising 197
’Science Pavilion’ at 204–5
‘Senegalese Village’ at 191–2, 200, 202–3, 205, 207, 212
Southern Nigeria represented at 191, 197–8, 200, 203
‘Tunisian Pavilion’ at 191–3, 200, 205; 188–92, 194–6, 198–9, 201–2, 206, 208–11, 213
Frazer, James 166, 184
The Magic Bough 133
Freire-Marreco, Barbara 157
The French Exhibition (1890), Arab troupe at 85, 87, 93, 97, 101, 103
Fryer, Peter 85
Gabon 142
Gaelic Revival 209–10
Gallwey, Henry 9–11, 19–20, 22, 32
Galton, Francis 56, 122
Gambia 168, 191, 197–8
Garcia Canclini, Nestor 221
Germany 4–5, 59–60, 77–8, 110, 130, 139, 189
Gilroy, Paul 220
Gold Coast 147, 169, 191, 197
Gold Coast Leader 30
Gramsci, Antonio 6
Graphic 19–20
Great Benin (Ling Roth) 21
Great Exhibition (1851) 63–4
Greater Britain Exhibition (1899): representation of Ndbele at 101
‘Savage South Africa’ at 89–90, 92, 107
Green, Jeff 85
Guardian 1–2
Haddon, Alfred 48–9, 52–6, 110, 124, 129, 154–5, 157, 166, 203–44
Introduction to Primitive Religions 184
The Study of Man 141
Haggard, Rider 87
Hainard, Jacques 221
Haldane, Viscount 127, 130
Hamid Ibn Mohammad 68, 82
Handbook for Folklore 133
Harmsworth History of the World 205, 204
Hartley, Harold 100
Hausa people 157, 166
‘Hidden Peoples of the Amazon’ (1985) 219
Hider, W.J. 150
Hinduism 14, 170, 177
Hitchins, Robert, The Garden of Allah 193
Hobson, John Atkinson 63, 65, 187
Hollis, A.C. 147
Holmes, William Henry 48, 139, 233, n. 19
Holmes, J. 184
Horniman, Frederick J. 68, 113, 118, 150
Horniman Free Museum: 68, 110, 113, 129, 170, 183
Benin collection at 23, 26–7, 150, 152
Congo material at 150, 155
and display of ethnographic material 115–17, 151–9
and education 154–5, 157–8
and imperialism 155–6
public access to 114, 124; 26, 114–16, 150–3; see also Haddon
human sacrifice 10, 14, 17, 22, 26, 30, 34, 36, 47, 115
hybridity 40, 58, 217–21, 257 n. 3
Ibo tribes 172
Illustrated London News 11, 12, 14–15, 17, 19–21, 26, 68, 78, 105; 12–13, 15–16, 18–20, 26, 104–6
idol worship 168–72, 177–8
imperialism 2, 6, 111, 117, 120, 122–4, 126–7, 187, 216, 226 n. 7
and anthropology 4, 43, 60
British, in Africa 4–5, 33, 82–3, 85, 102, 107, 155–6, 200
and missionary societies 162
social 189, 190–1, 214
and spectacle 63–4, 85; see also anthropology, and imperialism; exhibitions, colonial, and imperialism; Horniman Free Museum, and imperialism
India: and anthropology 109, 136
ethnographic collections and 52, 115, 139
material culture of 53, 155
missionary societies and 14, 161; see also Franco-British Exhibition, ‘Indian Pavilion’ at
Indian Rights groups 219–20
Independent Labour Party 191, 215
Indochina 191
International Fire Exhibition (1903), ‘Assouan Village’ at 96
International Horticultural Exhibition (1892) 97, 103
Inuit culture 5
Ireland 55, 215; see also Franco-British Exhibition, ‘Irish Village’ at
Islam 14, 177
Itsekiri People 9–11, 32
Jackson, John Payne 31, 35, 38, 199–200, 203
Jaja, Chief of the Opoba 32, 35–6
Japan 65, 139, 189
Johnson, Charles 89, 91–2, 95
Johnston, Harry 34, 205, 207
Jones, Alfred 130, 136
Journal of the African Society 132
Journal of the Anthropological Institute 46
Journal of the Museums Association 113
Joyce, T.A. 110, 132–3
Keane, Alfred H. 155
Ethnology 141
Man, Past and Present 141
Kemp, Dennis 169, 172, 177
Kingsley, Charles 146
Kingsley, Mary 14, 41, 146
Kiralfy, Imre 65, 92, 100, 188
Kuba culture 52, 70
Lagos Weekly Record 30–1, 35–9, 197–8, 200, 230 n. 15
Lang, Andrew 184
League of Empire 113
life-pictures 86
Linfors, Bernth 85
Ling Roth, H. 22, 27, 44–6, 57, 60
Great Benin 21, 46
Liverpool County Museum see Mayer Museum
Liverpool Courier 39
Liverpool Derby Museum 174
Liverpool Post 200
The Living Races 155
Livingstone, David 157
London Missionary Society 148, 162–4, 168, 170, 172, 175–6, 179, 183–5; 76, 175
‘Orient in London’ exhibition (1908): 163–4, 175, 178–9
‘African Village’ at 180
‘Hall of Religions’ at 183, 204; 176, 179–83
Lubicon Cree Indians 219–20
Macdonald, Claude 10, 30
MacDonald, Ramsay 31
Mackinnon, William 68
Malinowski, Bronislaw 166, 203
Man 132, 185
Manchester Museum 124
Marett, R.R. 184
Masai culture 147
‘Matabele Wars’ 104–6
Mayer, Joseph 129
Mayer Museum, ethnographical collections: 120, 124, 129–132, 174
of Benin material 23–5, 44, 148
of Congo material 148, 150
education and 140
racial typography and 139–42, 143
use of photography in 136–9, 24
Merriman Labour, A.B.C., Britons Thru’ Negro Spectacles 107
Military Exhibition (1901) 86, 99, 103
miscegenation 41, 90–1, 102, 207, 216
missionaries: 186
and education 166
history of 176
and home missions 161–3, 167, 227 n. 13
and Islam 14, 177
as source of ethnographic collections 150, 158, 172; see also Church Missionary Society; London Missionary Society
missionary exhibitions 162–5, 167, 170–86, 249 n. 29, 251 n. 72
modernism 5, 218, 221
Moor, Ralph 10, 60
Mudimbe, V.V. 186, 231 n. 63
museums: 1, 2, 221
communication between 110–11
education in 111–13, 122, 126–7, 166
ethnographic collections in 3–5, 17, 44, 48, 52, 59–62, 82, 109, 117, 120–1, 123, 129, 132, 139, 158–9, 177, 203–4, 214
folk 212
and imperial ideology 43, 124, 160–1, 215
and missionary collections 168–73; see also specific museums
Museum of Mankind 218–19, 223, 222
Museums Association 110–12, 115, 117, 119, 122–3, 126–7, 130, 240 n. 15
Museums Journal 123–4
Nana, Governor of Benin River region 10–11, 31–2, 34–6
National Gallery 123
nationalism: African 31–2, 35, 38, 40–1, 108
British 60, 123
Irish 55, 210–11
naturalism 48–9, 55–6,
Nature 25
Naval and Military Exhibition (1901) 87–8
Ndebele people 101, 103
Neville, George W. 31, 38, 46, 197, 199
New Zealand 191–2
The New Age 30, 33–6, 40–1
Niger Coast Protectorate see Benin Nigeria: 9, 130, 132, 166
material culture of 74, 76, 157, 202
religious practices and 148; see also Franco-British Exhibition, Southern Nigeria represented at; ‘Treasures of Ancient Nigeria’ Exhibition
North Africa 192, 207, 218; see also specific countries
North America 4, 189
Notes and Queries on Anthropology 133–6, 138; 134–5
Nugkuag, Evaristo 219
Oceanic culture 5, 148
Olympia see Earl’s Court
Ominayak, Bernard 219
oral history 57, 61
orientalism 14, 192
Ovonramwen, Oba of Benin 9–11, 15, 19, 29–31, 33–6, 57
Papua New Guinea 52, 54, 152
Paris Worlds Fair (1900) 91, 193
Pasha, Emin 66, 68, 77, 82
Pearson, Karl 56, 122
Phillips expedition 10–11, 16, 23, 27, 31, 34, 38, 59
photography 19–20, 96, 136–9; 137–9
Physical Deterioration Committee 122, 163, 216
Pinnock, James 20, 30–1, 38, 41, 140
Benin, the Surrounding Country, Customs and Trade 29
Pitt Rivers, Lieutenant-General 49–50, 53, 120–1, 124–5, 146
Antique Works of Art from Benin 46
The Evolution of Culture and Other Essays 149; 50–1, 118
Pitt Rivers Museum, ethnographic collections: 110, 125, 129, 150, 159, 167, 168
of Ashanti culture 147
of Benin material 23, 146–8
classification of 117–21, 142, 149, 151, 156
of Congo material 147–8
and education 143, 154, 157
of South African material 145–6, 148
visiting public and 124, 126; 143–4, 147; see also Balfour, Henry
polygamy 14, 41, 99
popular culture, and representation of Africa: 3, 6, 7, 81, 85, 87, 107, 203, 205
and spectacle 63, 66; see also Benin, British popular representation of
Porter, Bernard 32
Portman, Maurice Vidal 138
Portugal 37, 45–6, 57
the post-colonial 217–18, 220, 225, 257 n. 2
primitivism: in art 5, 53–4, 227 n. 16
constructed by colonial discourse 55–6, 89, 120, 146, 156, 184, 187, 212–13
Primrose League 124
punitive expedition 9, 11, 17, 19–20, 23–4, 36, 38, 43–4, 59–60, 62, 146; 8, 13, 16, 18–21
queen mother 47, 47
Quick, Richard 26–7, 153–4, 157
race: 5
classification of 3, 155, 192, 205
ideology of purity of 2, 54–7, 93, 102, 216, 217, 245 n. 28
stereotyping of 22, 85, 93–108, 127, 138–9, 140, 143, 149, 207, 215
and superiority 160, 187–9; see also body, representation of; women, African, representation of
Radcliffe-Brown 166, 203
Ranger, Terence 5, 107
Rattray, R.S. 147
Read, Charles Hercules 27, 46–8, 56–9, 68, 82
Handbook to the Ethnographic Collections 89
Reindorf, C.C. 38
History of the Gold Coast and the Asante 37
Reliquary 44, 172; 13, 44–5
Ridyard, Arnold 130–2, 136, 142
Rivers, W.H.R. 88, 134
Robinson, C.H. 166
Rochdale Observer 164
Roscoe, John 166–7
Roupell, E.P.S. 57
Rowntree, Seebohm 189
Royal Anthropological Institute see Anthropological Institute
Royal Geographical Society 85, 107, 136
Hints for Travellers 133
Royal Society of Arts see Society of Arts
Ruskin, John 55
Saleeby, Caleb 56
‘Savage South Africa’ troupe 89–93, 107; see also Greater Britain Exhibition
science, and representation of Africa: 3, 6–7, 63, 81, 85, 88, 97, 107, 203, 205, 214–15
and ethnographic collections 44, 62, 138; see also anthropology; Benin, scientific representation of
Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) 1977 223
Semper, Gottfried 49
Der Stil in den Technischen and Tekonischen Künsten, oder Praktische Aesthetik 48
Senegal see ‘Briton, Boer and Black’ exhibition, ‘Soudanese Village’ at; Franco-British Exhibition, ‘Senegalese Village’ at; 84, 94–5, 98–9
Sharp, Cecil 212
Shephard, Ben 91, 93
Sierra Leone 29–30, 107, 230 n. 9
Sierra Leone Weekly News 30, 35, 197, 200
Sinn Féin 210
Sketch 195
slave-trade 14, 30, 33, 40, 46, 70, 77–83, 98, 115, 129, 162, 170, 176
Social Democratic Federation 123
socialism 30, 41, 123–4
Society of Arts 52–3, 63–4, 121, 149
Somalia 85
‘Somali Village’ 97, 102, 107
South Africa: 140, 204
material culture of, in ethnographic collections 148; see also ‘Briton, Boer and Black in Savage South Africa’ exhibition; Bushmen culture
South London Press 152
spectacle: and imperialism 63–4, 85, 87, 181–2, 203, 214–15, 219
and racial difference 3, 44; see also exhibitions, as dramas
Stanley, Henry Morgan 66–9, 77, 80–1, 83, 88
In Darkest Africa 82
Stanley and African Exhibition (1890): 66–8, 81, 197
Ashanti culture displayed at 71
boys from Swaziland 80, 82–3
catalogue for 74–6
Congo material in 72, 77
and representation of slave traffic 70, 78–80, 82–3
material culture from Tanganyika and 72, 77
viewer as spectator of 69
Yoruba culture displayed in 77, 67, 69–76, 78–9
Steadman, Philip 49
Steains, William 74–7
Stock, Eugene 173
Stolpe, Hjalmar 48
Studio 153
Sudan 66, 79, 85, 125, 130, 170; see also Barnum and Bailey’s Great Show; Soudan, representation of
Suffragettes 211, 215
Surrey House Museum see Horniman Free Museum
Swainson, J.H. 9, 20
Swaziland see Stanley and African Exhibition, boys from Swaziland
Tanganyika see Stanley and African Exhibition, material culture from Tanganyika
Thomas, Northcote 110, 234 n. 83
The Times 21, 66, 69, 71, 77–8, 90, 92, 101, 163–5, 183
Tongue, Helen 146
Torday, Emile 132–3, 148, 150, 185
tourism 193, 200
transculturation 40, 217–18, 220
‘Treasures of Ancient Nigeria’ (1983) 221
Tunisia see Franco-British Exhibition, ‘Tunisian Pavilion’ at
Turkey 34
Tylor, Edward Burnett 46, 55, 125–6, 166, 184, 203
Uganda 166
The Universal Exhibitions Guide and Industrial Review 64, 78
Urhobo people 9–10
Victoria and Albert Museum 123
Weeks, John H. 150
Werner, Alice 110
Wesleyan Missionary Society 168, 170, 172
West Africa: and colonialism 13, 39, 161
and cheap labour 29
and degeneracy 14–16, 38, 56
and ethnographic collections 130, 136, 140, 146, 148, 168
and exhibitions 191, 197, 198–9, 200, 207
material culture from 51–2, 59, 77
and missionaries 176–7, 202
nationalism in 38, 40–2
press in 30–31, 34–5, 36–7, 43–4, 230 n. 7; see also specific countries
White City 63, 65, 178, 188, 190
Whitehouse, A. A. 132
Whitley, John R. 65
Williams, Henry Sylvester 35
Wilson, David 223
Wolverhampton Exhibition (1902) 65
women: African, representation of 12–14, 25, 80, 96–101, 157, 178, 207, 237 n. 16
and feminism 99, 121
Irish 207–11, 256 n. 81
white, and miscegenation 91–3
Women of All Nations 208
‘Women’s Exhibition’ (1900) 89, 100
working classes: health of 122
and home missions 163
as museum public 114, 120, 123–4, 126–7
and social imperialism 190–1, 214
Yoruban people: 47, 169
material culture of 77, 147, 168, 182
and use of idols 172, 177–8, 182
zoology 70
Zulu people 86–97
passim, 101–3, 105, 115, 138; see also ‘Briton, Boer and Black’ exhibition, ‘Zulu Village’ at; ‘Matabele Wars’