Chicken | Photographer: Jörg von Bruchhausen
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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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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Sculpture
Dimensions
Höhe x Breite x Tiefe: 44,5 x 25,5 x 30 cm
Gewicht: 7,4 kg
Gewicht: 7,4 kg
Material/Technique
Wood, Patina
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 18076
Provenance and sources
where
Benin [kingdom]
when
19th century
where
Nigeria [Land]
Benin [Königreich]
who
Fenton & Sons - Antiquities, Armour - Former Possessors
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.
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