Production
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where
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Benin [kingdom]
Photographer: Jörg von Bruchhausen | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Chicken
If brass figures of cockerels can be found on altars to the Queen Mother as an image of her prominent position, carved wooden representations of chickens on the memorial altars of the mothers of dignitaries correspond to them. They symbolise love and maternal devotion.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
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Height: 44,5 cm
Width: 25,5 cm
Depth: 30 cm
Weight: 7,4 kg - Material/Technique
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Wood, Patina
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 18076
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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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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Fenton & Sons - Antiquities, Armour - Former Possessors
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Description
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19th century, commissioned 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 Feb. 1897; acquired by the Museum of Ethnology from Fenton & Sons, London, 1904.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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