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Container with lid
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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
Weight: 0,2 kg
Weight: 0,3 kg
Height: 3,4 cm
Width: 33 cm
Depth: 7,8 cm
Height: 4,5 cm
Width: 33 cm
Depth: 7,5 cm
Height: 7 cm
Width: 33 cm
Depth: 7,8 cm
Weight: 0,5 kg
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 (de.fiz.ddb.model.ddbobject.WhenType$Begin@17a88091 - de.fiz.ddb.model.ddbobject.WhenType$End@5da002ed) - 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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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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