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Figure, man with headdress, spear and shield
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This figure was later partially re-melted, possibly during the pillaging during the conquest. It shows a squatting man. His equipment with a large shield, a cutting weapon (?) in his hand, armor (?) and a bell around his neck makes an interpretation as a military commander plausible. The military was as strictly hierarchically organized as the rest of society. Within a few days, according to European sources (Dappert), up to 80,000 soldiers could be mobilized. Text: Dietmar Neitzke.

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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Cultural attribution
Edo
Object type
Figur
Dimensions
Breite: 14 cm, Höhe: 17.6 cm
Material/Technique
Copper alloy
Lost wax process
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
122118

Provenance and sources

where
Nigeria

when
1961
who
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Provenance
The object came to the Linden Museum through a exchange deal with the ethnographic dealer Ludwig Bretschneider. Text: Markus Himmelsbach.

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED

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