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Height: 159,5 cm Depth: 4,9 cm Width: 14,3 cm Height: 191 cm Depth: 4,9 cm Width: 14,3 cm Weight: 12,6 kg
Material/Technique
Brass, copper alloy, Iron, iron
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 9955
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
18th century - 19th century
where
Nigeria
Benin
Collecting
who
William Downing Webster (1868-05-11 - 1913-01-14) - Collectors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
Commissioned from the Igun Eronmwon brass foundry guild in the Kingdom of Benin in the 18th or 19th century; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession between Feb. 1897 and 1899; acquired by the Museum of Ethnology from William D. Webster, 1899.
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kempul (Gamelan, pélog)
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kempul (gamelan, pélog)
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kenong
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Fragment of a clay pipe
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sheng
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koauau
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