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Height: 32,8 cm Width: 16,9 cm Depth: 6,9 cm Weight: 934 g
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 8502
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
19th century
where
Nigeria
Benin
Collecting
who
Heinrich Bey - Collectors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
19th century, commissioned by the Igun Eronmwon or Guild of Brass Casters 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 the conquest of the Kingdom of Benin; collected on behalf of the firm of Bey & Co. between 1897 and 1898 in the area that later became colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1899.
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