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where
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Benin [kingdom]
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Staff
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.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Staff
- Dimensions
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Objektmaß: H: 33,5 cm
Height: 34 cm
Width: 5,7 cm
Depth: 5 cm - Material/Technique
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Iron, Bronze, Brass
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 18151
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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19th century
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where
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NigeriaBenin
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Collecting
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who
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H. Bey & Co. - Former Possessors
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Description
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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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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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