The Prince and the Plunder

A book on how Britain took one boy and piles of treasures from Ethiopia

Author: Andrew Heavens

Wooden shell stand ‘manufactured by King Theodore’s European workmen’

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What: Wooden stand for shell

Where: The National Museums of Scotland

Sources:

National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.L.367.12 A
Description: Wooden stand for shell: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Magdala, manufactured by King Theodore’s
European workmen
Acquisition source: Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Iron shell ‘manufactured by King Theodore’s European workmen’

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What: Spherical cast iron shell

Where: The National Museums of Scotland

Sources:

National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.L.367.12
Description: Spherical shell of cast iron: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Magdala, manufactured by King Theodore’s European workmen
Acquisition source: Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Whip ‘picked up in the state prison at Magdala’

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What: Whip with wooden handle

Where: The National Museums of Scotland

Sources:

National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.L.367.10
Description: Whip or geraf with wooden handle and long coiled leather lash, used for thrashing prisoners to death: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, picked up in the state prison at Magdala
Acquisition source: Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh