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Container with lid

Carved wooden box with lid. Depiction of a king (Oba) and a Portuguese man on the lid.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Container with lid
Dimensions
Gewicht: b) 0,2 kg
Gewicht: a) 0,3 kg
Höhe x Breite x Tiefe: 3,4 x 33 x 7,8 cm (b)
Höhe x Breite x Tiefe: 4,5 x 33 x 7,5 cm (a)
Höhe x Breite x Tiefe: 7 x 33 x 7,8 cm (Gesamtmaß)
Gewicht: 0,5 kg (Gesamtgewicht)
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 23976 a,b

Provenance and sources

where
Benin [kingdom]

when
19th century
where
Nigeria [Land]
Benin [Königreich]

who
William John Ansorge (1850 - 1913-10-31) - Collectors

Description
Commissioned in the Kingdom of Benin in the 19th century; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown ownership after Feb. 1897; acquired in a village near Benin City by W.J. Ansorge before 1905; auctioned by J.C. Stevens, 1909.

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