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where
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Benin [kingdom]
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Memorial head of a queen mother
Memorial head from the altar of a queen mother with the typical pointed and slightly forward-curved coral bead bonnet.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Plastic
- Dimensions
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Height: 52 cm
Depth: 27 cm
Width: 24 cm
Weight: 16,9 kg
Wandstärke: ca. 0,08 cm - Material/Technique
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Brass, Iron
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 8187
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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18th cent.
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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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Description
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18th century, commissioned by the Igun Eronmwon or guild of brass casters in the Kingdom of Benin; location unknown in the Kingdom of Benin until 1897; 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 what later became colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde 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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