Production
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where
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Benin [kingdom]
Photographer: Jörg von Bruchhausen | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Rod beads as a pendant for a royal necklace
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- Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Rod beads as a pendant for a royal necklace
- Dimensions
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Height: 8,5 cm
Width: 1,5 cm
Depth: 1,5 cm - Material/Technique
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Ivory
, Brass (?)
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 8086 a-i
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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18th century-19th century.
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where
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Nigeria
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Collecting
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who
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Eduard Schmidt - Collectors
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Acquisition-
Description
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18th - 19th century, commissioned; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession after the conquest of the Kingdom of Benin; collected by Consul Eduard Schmidt, employee of the Woermann line, between 1897 and 1898 in the territory of later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Royal Museum of Ethnology in Berlin, 1898.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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