Production
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where
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Benin [kingdom]
Photographer: Jörg von Bruchhausen | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Queen Mother with gong
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Trailer
- Dimensions
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Weight: 295,6 g
Height: 12 cm
Width: 10,5 cm
Depth: 4 cm - Material/Technique
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Brass
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 8529
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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18th century-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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Königliches Ethnographisches Museum München - Former Possessors
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Change of legal title:
Acquisition-
Description
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17th century, commissioned by the Igun Eronmwon or guild of brass casters in the Kingdom of Benin; ownership before 1897 currently unknown; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession after the conquest of the Kingdom of Benin; acquired in exchange with the Museum für Völkerkunde München, 1898.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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