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King or high dignitary
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Relief plaque
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 44,5 x 19,5 x 6 cm
Gewicht: 5 kg
Gewicht: 5 kg
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 8213
Provenance and sources
where
Benin [kingdom]
when
16th century
where
Nigeria [Land]
who
Eduard Schmidt - Collectors
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 the conquest of the Kingdom of Benin; collected by Consul Eduard Schmidt, employee of the Woermann line, between 1897 and 1898 in the territory of later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1898.
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