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Height: 39,8 cm Depth: 6,1 cm Width: 21,6 cm Weight: 4,1 kg
Material/Technique
Brass, copper alloy
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 27506
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
16th century
where
Nigeria
Benin
Collecting
who
Julius Konietzko (1886 - 1952-04-27) - Collectors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
16th cent, commissioned by Oba Esigie (r. 1517-1550) or his son Oba Orhogbua (r. 1550-1570), Royal Palace, Benin City; 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; in unknown possession after Feb. 1897; acquired by Julius Konietzko, 1913.
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Title A: Abe Agbala Title B: Orin Faji
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Ceremonial staff
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Container in the shape of a building of the Palace of Benin
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Jewellery bead
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Medicine
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The scribe
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Ooton priest
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Relief panel with two Portuguese
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Memorial head of an Oba
Ere Ibeji
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Twin figure
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