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Centreboard
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Centreboard
Dimensions
Gewicht: 1,25 kg
Höhe x Breite x Tiefe: 79 x 11,2 x 3,7 cm
Material/Technique
Iron, Leather
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 12377 a

Provenance and sources

where
Benin [kingdom]

where
Nigeria [Land]
Benin [Königreich]

who
H. Bey & Co. - Former Possessors

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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