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Bronze plaque: military commander with armour, helmet, bell, necklace
This relief plate from the royal palace shows a rank soldier with armor, sword "eben" in hand, dagger, chain of leopard teeth, helmet-like headgear and bell around his neck. Such square bells were made of yellow cast iron. They announced the beginning of a ceremony at ancestral altars, were considered amulets and badges of rank in the military. In the 16th century they were exported as far as England. Text: Dietmar Neitzke.
In October 1898, the Hamburg company "H. Bey & Co" offered the Berlin Ethnological Museum a Benin collection that came directly from Africa. However, due to a lack of funds, the entire collection could not be purchased and was therefore to be passed on to other interested parties. Felix von Luschan of the Berlin Museum therefore informed Karl Graf von Linden in November 1898, and offered him a right of first refusal. The Linden Museum then made 15,000 M available for the purchase of objects. The purchase price was paid by the Heilbronn entrepreneur Karl Knorr, which is why the collection became known as "Die Karl Knorr'sche Sammlung von Benin-Altertümern". Von Luschan published a detailed description of the collection under the same title (1901) on behalf of Count Linden and Knorr. Other buyers of the collection included the museums in Vienna and Munich, but also people such as Hans Meyer (Leipzig) and Eugen Rautenstrauch (Cologne). Text: Markus Himmelsbach.
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Bronze plate, European with manilla
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Bronze plate (damaged): Army commander with armour, helmet,
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Bronze plate, man with "pigtail hairstyle"
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Bronze plate: Man with staff and dagger (one piece broken out)
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Bronze plaque: military commander with armour, helmet, bell, necklace
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Bronze plate: military leader with feather cloak and crown, bell
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Bronze plate, African with wrap-around skirt
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Bronze plate: Man with flat, pearl cap and ruff
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Bronze plate, man with helmet, damaged
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Bronze, man with "pigtail hairstyle" and belly bow
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