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Language: Bini
Language: Bini

Double gong

Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Edo
Object type
gongs
Dimensions
330 x 148 x 119 mm
Material/Technique
Copper alloy; pigment, mineral
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 43016
Other number(s)
RJM 1943/05 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Nigeria
    historical: Kingdom Benin
    Africa -> West Africa -> Nigeria
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Purchase
    when
    1944-23-03
    where
    Paris
    who
    Gurlitt, Hildebrand - Purchasing Agents
    Description
    Hildebrand Gurlitt was the intermediary who organised the organised the transport of the objects selected by museum director Martin Heydrich to Germany and who organised the financial transfer. financial transfer.
  • Restitution (cultural policy)
    when
    2022-15-12
    where
    Cologne
    who
    Stadt Köln
    Bundesrepublik Nigeria - Recipients
    Description
    Transfer of ownership with subsequent to remain in the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum on loan for 10 years (until 2032-15-12)
    Source(s)
    Agreement on the return of Benin bronzes between the City of Cologne and the Federal Republic of Nigeria

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