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Snakehead

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Snake head with scale pattern, open mouth with carefully worked upper and lower row of teeth.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Plastic
Dimensions
Objektmaß: H: ca. 52 cm B: ca. 36 cm
Height: 19,5 cm
Depth: 37,5 cm
Width: 51 cm
Weight: 16 kg
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 8515

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Benin [kingdom]
  • Production
    when
    18th century-19th century.
    where
    Nigeria
    Benin
  • Collecting
    who
    Heinrich Bey - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    18th century - 19th century, commissioned by the Igun Eronmwon or Guild of Brass Casters in the Kingdom of Benin; probably used as a roof ornament in the royal palace 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 on behalf of the firm Bey & Co, between 1897 and 1898 in the territory of later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1899.
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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