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

Cultural attribution
Edo
Object type
figures (representations)
Dimensions
122 x 58 x 150 mm
Material/Technique
Copper alloy
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 43578
Other number(s)
RJM 1953/04 (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:
Not clarified
who
Hugo Langerbein
Change of physical control or legal title:
Purchase
when
1953-18-07
who
Hugo Langerbein - Sellers
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde - Buyers
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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