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Language: Bini
Language: Bini

Arm ring

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Edo
Object type
armlets
Dimensions
7 x 71 x 69 mm
Material/Technique
Copper alloy
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 5266
Other number(s)
RJM 1902/19 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Nigeria
    historical: Kingdom Benin
    Africa -> West Africa -> Nigeria
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    when
    probably in October 1899
    where
    Bicester
    who
    William Downing Webster - Possessors
    Source(s)
    Webster Catalogue of Ethnographic Specimens 21
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Commission
    when
    1902
    where
    London
    who
    J.C. Stevens - Contractors
    Description
    The collection donated by Rautenstrauch from the estate of W. D. Webster and was apparently sold by the auctioneer sold by the auctioneer J. C. Stevens
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Auction
    when
    1902-03-06
    where
    Stevens' Auction Rooms, London
    who
    J.C. Stevens - Auctioneers
    Theodor Rautenstrauch (1873 - 1907) - Buyers
    Source(s)
    Cat. Unique Collection of Benin Bronzes. J. C. Stevens, the 3rd day of June, 1902
  • Restitution (cultural policy)
    when
    2022-15-12
    where
    Cologne
    who
    Stadt Köln
    Bundesrepublik Nigeria - Recipients
    Description
    This Benin court artwork will remain on loan to the museum in the museum until it is physically restituted in the coming years. in the coming years.
    Source(s)
    Agreement on the return of Benin bronzes between the City of Cologne and the Federal Republic of Nigeria

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