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Plastic
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Plastic
Dimensions
Objektmaß: H: 44 cm B: 42 cm G.: 16 kg U.o.: 48 cm U.m.: 70 cm U.u.: 50 cm.
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 8518
Provenance and sources
where
Benin [kingdom]
when
16th century-19th century.
where
Nigeria [Land]
Benin [Königreich]
who
Heinrich Bey - Collectors
Description
16th century - 19th century, commissioned by the Igun Eronmwon or Guild of Brass Moulders in the Kingdom of Benin; in unknown possession before 1897; 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 of Bey & Co. between 1897 and 1898 in the territory of the later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1899.
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