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Staff (fragment?), square with a crown-shaped top, the 6 points of which enclose a zoomorphic (?) structure. Two of the opposite sides of the staff are each decorated with a snake, the other two sides are undecorated.
Objektmaß: H: 33,5 cm Height: 34 cm Width: 5,7 cm Depth: 5 cm
Material/Technique
Iron, Bronze, Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 18151
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
19th century
where
Nigeria
Benin
Collecting
who
H. Bey & Co. - Former Possessors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
19th century, commissioned work 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 Bey & Co. between 1897 and 1899 in the territory of the later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1904.
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Vascular base (?)
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Bronze plaque: man with a ball in his hands, pearls
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Memorial head of a dignitary
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Ibanri sango
woda
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Lidded vessel
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Soldier with round bell
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Memorial head
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TÄTOWIEREN, Katab, motif 1: dancing men with disc-shaped formations on their buttocks, 2 motif: tattoo of a man
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Osun altar head
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Leopard head
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