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Bronze plate (fragment): Man with beaded tutu cap,
The high hood, ruff, braids, as well as the chest bands of the dignitary depicted here are richly decorated with beads. These beads were made of stone, but mainly of precious red coral. Red coral came from the Balearic Islands and was imported by the Portuguese. They were processed by a special guild of craftsmen exclusively for the king and his court. Also, the hood with the upward projection shows spiritual power, which - sent by the gods - can drive into the wearer as a possession through this vertical axis. Text: Dietmar Neitzke.
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Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Edo
- Object type
- Figurenrelief
- Dimensions
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Width: 16 cm
Height: 31 cm - Material/Technique
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Copper alloy
Lost wax process
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 005387
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Nigeria
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Change of physical control
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when
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1899
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- Provenance
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In October 1898, the Hamburg company "H. Bey & Co" offered the Berlin Ethnological Museum a Benin collection that came directly from Africa. However, due to a lack of funds, the entire collection could not be purchased and was therefore to be passed on to other interested parties. Felix von Luschan of the Berlin Museum therefore informed Karl Graf von Linden in November 1898, and offered him a right of first refusal. The Linden Museum then made 15,000 M available for the purchase of objects. The purchase price was paid by the Heilbronn entrepreneur Karl Knorr, which is why the collection became known as "Die Karl Knorr'sche Sammlung von Benin-Altertümern". Von Luschan published a detailed description of the collection under the same title (1901) on behalf of Count Linden and Knorr. Other buyers of the collection included the museums in Vienna and Munich, but also people such as Hans Meyer (Leipzig) and Eugen Rautenstrauch (Cologne). Text: Markus Himmelsbach.
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