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Plastic

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Cataloguing data

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

  • Production
    where
    Benin [kingdom]
  • Production
    when
    16th century-19th century.
    where
    Nigeria
    Benin
  • Collecting
    who
    Heinrich Bey - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    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.
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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