Ighẹghan

Language: Bini
Language: Bini
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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Edo
Object type
charms (jewelry)
Dimensions
57 x 18 x 21 mm
Material/Technique
Copper alloy
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 47315
Other number(s)
RJM 1943/05 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

Production
where
Nigeria
historical: Kingdom Benin
Africa -> West Africa -> Nigeria
Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
Change of physical control or legal title:
Purchase
when
probably 1934
where
Paris
who
Galerie Louis Carré (Paris) - Possessors
Change of physical control or legal title:
Purchase
when
1944-23-03
where
Paris
who
Gurlitt, Hildebrand - Purchasing Agents
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde - Buyers
Description
Hildebrand Gurlitt was the intermediary who organised the organised the transport of the objects selected by museum director Martin Heydrich to Germany and who organised the financial transfer. financial transfer.
Restitution (cultural policy)
when
2022-15-12
where
Cologne
who
Stadt Köln
Bundesrepublik Nigeria - Recipients
Description
This Benin court artwork will remain on loan to the museum in the museum until it is physically restituted in the coming years. in the coming years.
Source(s)
Agreement on the return of Benin bronzes between the City of Cologne and the Federal Republic of Nigeria

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED

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