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Dignitaries from an altar group

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The figure was probably part of the altar group of a queen mother. Her court also included male dignitaries and a bodyguard.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Plastic
Dimensions
Height: 20 cm
Depth: 7 cm
Width: 12 cm
Weight: 1,585 kg
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 18154

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Benin [kingdom]
  • Production
    when
    18th century - 19th century
    where
    Nigeria
    Benin
  • Collecting
    who
    H. Bey & Co. - Former Possessors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    18th century - 19th century, commissioned work in the Kingdom of Benin; in unknown possession before 1897; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession after the conquest of the Kingdom of Benin; collected on behalf of the firm Bey & Co., between 1897 and 1899 in the territory of the later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1904.
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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