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Benin [kingdom]
Photographer: Dietrich Graf | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Dignitary, perhaps used as a ridge turret.
The figure of a dignitary is interpreted as a roof figure due to its unusual mounting on a metal plate. Armed with a sword and bow and dressed in a leopard's cape, a square bell on a chain of coral beads and leopard's teeth as well as a mitre-shaped headdress, this dignitary is an image of royal power and the roof decoration was probably removed along with the relief panels in the palace courtyards during a crisis of royalty in the 17th century.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Plastic
- Dimensions
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Height: 45,5 cm
Depth: 15,8 cm
Width: 22,6 cm
Weight: 4,1 kg - Material/Technique
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Brass, copper alloy
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 9948
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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16th century - 17th 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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William Downing Webster (1868-05-11 - 1913-01-14) - Collectors
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Description
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Commissioned from the Igun Eronmwon brass foundry guild in the Kingdom of Benin in the 16th or 17th century; ownership before 1897 currently unknown; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession between Feb. 1897 and 1899; acquired by the Museum of Ethnology from William D. Webster, 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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