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Weight: 1,25 kg Height: 79 cm Width: 11,2 cm Depth: 3,7 cm
Material/Technique
Iron, Leather
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 12377 a
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
where
Nigeria
Benin
Collecting
who
H. Bey & Co. - Former Possessors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
Probably commissioned work 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; collected on behalf of the firm Bey & Co. between 1897 and 1899 in the territory of later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1900.
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Brass vessel
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Military dignitary
eben
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Ceremonial sword
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Kulebasse
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Calabash (part of a musical instrument)
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Sword (sceptre)
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Hoe
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Portuguese with manilla
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Fishing rod
zari
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Rattle
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