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Height: 20,5 cm Depth: 10 cm Width: 10 cm Weight: 0,95 kg
Material/Technique
Bronze, Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 19142
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
18th century - 19th century
where
Nigeria
Benin
Collecting
who
Frau Erdmann - Former Possessors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
18th century - 19th century, commissioned work of the Igun Eronmwon or Guild of Brass Casters in the Kingdom of Benin; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession after the conquest of the Kingdom of Benin; acquired by Mrs Erdmann, 1905.
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Bell
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Clay flute
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