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Personal flag of Itsekri chief Nana Olomu (1852-1916). A red cotton flag, hand sewn with a printed Union Flag placed vertically in the canton. The name ‘NANNA’ is applied in white damask letters in the fly. There are wool-fabric loops along the top edge.and a white strip at the hoist with small cord loops. AAA0556
Itsekiri flag captured from Chief Nana Olomu’s forces during the 1894 British naval expedition against Ebrohimi. This yellow flag with a Union Flag canton symbolises Olomu’s authority as Governor of the Benin River and the armed resistance he led prior to his defeat. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons / Public domain / Royal Museums Greenwich.
| Ref. | OZ-P-0495 |
|---|---|
| Type | Photograph · image/jpeg |
| Credit | Joshua Akin |
| Added | 28 January 2026 |
| Dimensions | 1280 × 703 |
| Size | 610 KB |
| Rights | credit “Joshua Akin” read from the file's own embedded metadata (image_meta.credit in _wp_attachment_metadata), which the import did not carry over; the file's own embedded copyright field holds "©National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. All rights reserved" — a rights statement, not a licence, so no licence is recorded. Derived from the WordPress record, not established by a person: nobody has confirmed this. |
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