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Weight: 435 g Height: 2 cm Depth: 16 cm Width: 16 cm
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 8525
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
16th century - 19th century
where
Nigeria
Benin
Collecting
who
Heinrich Bey - Collectors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
16th century - 19th century, commissioned by the Igun Eronmwon or Guild of Brass Moulders in the Kingdom of Benin; in unknown possession before 1897; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession after the conquest of the Kingdom of Benin; collected on behalf of the firm of Bey & Co. between 1897 and 1898 in the territory of the later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1899.
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Ibanri sango
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Bell
woda
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Lidded vessel
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Jewellery bead
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Bag
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Jug
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Iya'lu Dundun
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Osun rod
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Group of three figures
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Fragment of a relief panel: dignitary with ekpokin box
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