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Benin [kingdom]
Photographer: Jörg von Bruchhausen | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Memorial head of a dignitary
Like the kings, dignitaries and village chiefs also erected memorial altars to their deceased predecessors. Ritual sacrifices at these altars strengthened the relationship between the living and their ancestors. The furnishings of the altars are comparable to those of the royal memorial altars. The decisive difference lies in the use of certain materials that were an expression of Benin's hierarchical society. Brass for memorial heads and altar figures or ivory were, with a few exceptions, reserved for the king. On the memorial altars of people of lower rank were memorial heads made of wood, some of which were covered with thin sheet brass as an expression of special privilege on the part of the king.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
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Height: 55 cm
Diameter: 25,5 cm
Weight: 5 kg - Material/Technique
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Brass, Wood
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 8773
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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19th century
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where
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NigeriaBenin
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Collecting
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who
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Justus Brinckmann (1843 - 1915) - Collectors
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Description
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19th century, commissioned by the Igun Eronmwon or guild of brass casters in the Kingdom of Benin; ownership before 1897 currently unknown; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession after the conquest of the Kingdom of Benin; acquired by Justus Brinckmann, 1899.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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