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where
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Benin [kingdom]
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Plastic
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- Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Plastic
- Dimensions
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Objektmaß: b) H: 44 cm B: 30 cm G.: 7,3 kg
Objektmaß: a) H: 45,5 cm B: 34 cm G.: 9,5 kg - Material/Technique
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Brass
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 8519 a,b
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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16th century-19th century.
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where
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NigeriaBenin
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Collecting
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who
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Heinrich Bey - Collectors
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Description
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16th century - 19th century, commissioned by the Igun Eronmwon or guild of brass casters in the Kingdom of Benin; ownership before 1897 currently unknown; 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 1898 in the territory of later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1899.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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