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Staff

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Staff
Dimensions
Height: 89,5 cm
Width: 4,5 cm
Depth: 2 cm
Length: 90 cm
Material/Technique
Ebony
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 7675

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Benin [kingdom]
  • Production
    when
    19th century
    where
    Nigeria
  • Collecting
    who
    Eduard Schmidt - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    18th century - 19th century, commissioned 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; collected by the German consul and employee of the Woermann line, Eduard Schmidt, 1897-1898; acquired by the Royal Museum of Ethnology, 1898.
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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