Production
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where
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Benin [kingdom]
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Arm ring
Arm ring with four human heads
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Arm ring
- Dimensions
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Height: 1,3 cm
Depth: 11 cm
Width: 11,5 cm - Material/Technique
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Iron, Brass
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 8076
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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18th century-19th century.
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where
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Nigeria
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Collecting
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who
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William Downing Webster (1868-05-11 - 1913-01-14) - Former Possessors
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Description
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Commissioned from the Igun Eronmwon brass foundry guild in the Kingdom of Benin in the 18th or 19th century; ownership before 1897 currently unknown; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession between Feb. 1897 and 1898; acquired by the Museum of Ethnology from William D. Webster, 1898.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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