SPOTLIGHT 104 ambitions. Examples of beaded jewelry and weapons from South Africa brought back by Boer War veterans are noteworthy among the works with this provenance. As historian Jan Morris pointed out in her trilogy Pax Brittannica (1968–1978), the infatuation with the New Imperialism was almost as strong in Toronto as it was in London. number of objects to Canadian supporters. The latter were often indifferent to—and sometimes even repelled by— the aesthetics of these objects and subsequently donated them to what was to become the ROM. The museum’s African collection also benefited from seizures and war booty taken by members of the Canadian military who had participated in Great Britain’s imperialist FIG. 5 (right): Female headcrest. Calabar, Cross River, Nigeria. Attributed to Asikpo Edet Okon, active in Ibonda, Creek Town, died in the 1920s. Collected in 1929. Wood, antelope hide, pigment, bone. Royal Ontario Museum, Shreyas and Mina Ajmera Gallery of Africa, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific, inv. 935.10.1. © Royal Ontario Museum. FIG. 6 (below): Installation view of Into the Heart of Africa, May 1990. © Royal Ontario Museum.
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