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Container

Wooden box with lid. The box and lid are carved with wickerwork motifs.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Container
Dimensions
Gewicht: 0,7 kg
Höhe x Breite x Tiefe: 8,5 x 22 x 14 cm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 19210 a,b

Provenance and sources

where
Benin [kingdom]

when
19th century
where
Nigeria [Land]
Benin [Königreich]

who
Paul Bieger - Former Possessors
Hermann Held - Collectors

Description
Commissioned by the Guild of Woodcarvers in the Kingdom of Benin before 1897 or during the interregnum after 1897; ownership before 1897 currently unknown; possibly looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; owned by Hermann Held before 1905; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1905.

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