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Staff

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Edo
Object type
ceremonial staffs
Dimensions
480 x 45 x 32 mm
Material/Technique
Copper alloy
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 2008
Other number(s)
RJM 1897/01 (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:
    Donation
    when
    1899-19-05
    where
    Cologne
    who
    Rautenstrauch, Adolf - Donors
    Naturhistorisches Museum Köln - Recipients
  • 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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CC0 1.0 DEED

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