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Martyrdom implement

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Martyrdom implement
Dimensions
Height: 110,5 cm
Width: 10 cm
Depth: 2 cm
Length: 110 cm
Material/Technique
Metal
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 7624

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Benin [kingdom]
  • Production
    when
    19th century
    where
    Nigeria
  • Collecting
    who
    Fenton & Sons - Antiquities, Armour - Former Possessors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Commissioned in the Kingdom of Benin before 1897; ownership before 1897 currently unknown; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; owned by Fenton & Sons until 1998; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1898.
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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Legal status metadata
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