Photographer: Mira Dallige-Smith | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Crocodile skin helmet
The helmet was made from the lower skin layer of the crocodile, in which there are small bone plates for armouring. It was already in the museum's collection at the end of the 19th century, but without proof of its exact origin. Some relief panels from Benin depict high-ranking military officers wearing such helmets. It could therefore originate from Benin.
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Crocodile skin helmet
Dimensions
Height: 13,5 cm
Depth: 23,5 cm
Width: 14,5 cm
Depth: 13 cm
Length: 25,8 cm
Depth: 23,5 cm
Width: 14,5 cm
Depth: 13 cm
Length: 25,8 cm
Material/Technique
Skin (armoured crocodile; crocodylus cataphractus), Leather , Pipe , Bone (armoured crocodile, crocodylus cataphractus)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 31329
Provenance and sources
when
19th century
who
Friedrich Meyer - Former Possessors
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