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Weight: 365 g Height: 20 cm Depth: 8 cm Width: 12 cm
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 8503
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
18th century-19th century.
where
Nigeria
Benin
Collecting
who
Heinrich Bey - Collectors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
18th century - 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 Bey & Co., between 1897 and 1898 in the territory of later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1899.
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Rod rattle (fertility spell)
palipal
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palipal
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pu ihu
sicu sanca (arca)
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sicu sanca (arca)
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Drum
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Signal whistle
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Pan flute for boys
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