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Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 8453
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
16th century
where
Nigeria
Collecting
who
Heinrich Bey - Collectors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
16th cent, commissioned by Oba Esigie (r. 1517-1550) or his son Oba Orhogbua (r. 1550-1570), Royal Palace, Benin City; by inheritance to Oba Ovonramwen (ca. 1857-1914; r. 1888-97), Royal Palace, Benin City; 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 Bey & Co, between 1897 and 1898 in the territory of later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1899.
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Face mask
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Carving knife
omele ako
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omele ako, Omo'le Bata
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Relief plate: European (Portuguese) surrounded by five manillas
Ukhurhẹ
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Ancestral staff
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Ibanri sango
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Large plaque with Oba and companions, triad depiction
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