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Height: 17 cm Depth: 9 cm Width: 7,9 cm Weight: 600 g
Material/Technique
Brass, Iron
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 8079
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
18th century-19th century.
where
Nigeria
Collecting
who
William Downing Webster (1868-05-11 - 1913-01-14) - Former Possessors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
Commissioned from the Igun Eronmwon brass foundry guild in the Kingdom of Benin in the 18th or 19th century; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession between Feb. 1897 and 1898; acquired by the Museum of Ethnology from William D. Webster, 1898.
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gombo
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