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Hip pendant

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Edo
Object type
pendants (jewelry)
Dimensions
133 x 90 x 26 mm
Material/Technique
Copper alloy; pigment, mineral
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 18950
Other number(s)
RJM 1906/24 (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
    when
    1901
    where
    Bicester
    who
    William Downing Webster - Sellers
    Source(s)
    Webster catalogue 29/1901 (Vol.3)
  • Restitution (cultural policy)
    when
    2022-15-12
    where
    Cologne
    who
    Stadt Köln
    Bundesrepublik Nigeria - Recipients
    Description
    This Benin court artwork will remain on loan to the museum in the museum until it is physically restituted in the coming years. in the coming years.
    Source(s)
    Agreement on the return of Benin bronzes between the City of Cologne and the Federal Republic of Nigeria

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CC0 1.0 DEED

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