Uhunmwu-Ẹkuẹ
Language: Bini
Hip mask with
Oba or Iyoba head
Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cultural attribution
Edo
Object type
pendants (jewelry)
Dimensions
205 x 118 x 47
mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 48107
Other number(s)
RJM 1943/05
Provenance and sources
where
Nigeria
historical: Kingdom
Benin
Africa -> West Africa ->
Nigeria
when
1932
where
Paris
Source(s)
Exposition Bronzes et Ivoires du Bénin au
Musée d’Éthnographie, Palais du Trocadéro,
1932
when
1944-23-03
where
Paris
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.
when
2022-15-12
where
Cologne
who
Stadt Köln
Bundesrepublik
Nigeria - Recipients
Description
Transfer of ownership with subsequent
to remain in the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum on loan for 10 years
(until 2032-15-12)
Source(s)
Vereinbarung über die Rückgabe von
Benin-Bronzen zwischen der Stadt Köln und der Bundesrepublik
Nigeria
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