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Chicken

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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
Height: 44,5 cm
Width: 25,5 cm
Depth: 30 cm
Weight: 7,4 kg
Material/Technique
Wood, Patina
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 18076

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Benin [kingdom]
  • Production
    when
    19th century
    where
    Nigeria
    Benin
  • Collecting
    who
    Fenton & Sons - Antiquities, Armour - Former Possessors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    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.
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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