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Benin [kingdom]
Side view (right) | Photographer: Claudia Obrocki | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Container in the shape of an antelope's head (Orievbee-enya)
The container was used to offer kola nuts when receiving guests. The ivory material suggests that this was a kola nut jar owned by the king.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Container
- Dimensions
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Height: 29 cm
Width: 11,5 cm
Depth: 16,5 cm
Height: 7,7 cm
Width: 28,7 cm
Depth: 11,5 cm
Height: 9,3 cm
Width: 25,7 cm
Depth: 10,2 cm
Weight: 1,4 kg - Material/Technique
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Ivory
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 7633 a,b
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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18th cent.
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where
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Nigeria
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Collecting
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who
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Christie, Manson & Woods - Former Possessors
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Description
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Royal commission to the Guild of Ivory Carvers in the Kingdom of Benin during the 18th century; by inheritance to Oba Ovonramwen (ca. 1857-1914; r. 1888-97), Royal Palace, Benin City; looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; owned by the firm of Christie, Manson & Woods until 1897; sold to the Royal Museum of Ethnology in Berlin, 1897.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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