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Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 8423
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
16th century
where
Nigeria
Collecting
who
Eduard Schmidt - Collectors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
16th cent, commissioned by Oba Esigie (r. 1517-1550) or his son Oba Orhogbua (r. 1550-1570), royal palace, Benin City; by inheritance to Oba Ovonramwen (ca. 1857-1914; r. 1888-97), Royal Palace, Benin City; looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession after the conquest of the Kingdom of Benin; collected by Consul Eduard Schmidt, employee of the Woermann line, between 1897 and 1898 in the territory of later colonial Nigeria; acquired by the Royal Museum of Ethnology in Berlin as an exchange from Eduard Schmidt, 1898.
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Chair leg (Leg of a chair)
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Face mask
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Vessel
etsiokum
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Mask
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Bell
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Memorial head of an Iyoba
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Water pot
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Relief plate: European (Portuguese) surrounded by five manillas
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Header mask
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