Production
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where
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Benin [kingdom]
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Memorial head of a king
- Data Provider
- Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Plastic
- Dimensions
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Height: 36 cm
Depth: 24 cm
Width: 25 cm
Wandstärke: ca. 0,9 cm
Weight: 14,5 kg - Material/Technique
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Brass
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 8178
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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Nigeria
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Collecting
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who
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Eduard Schmidt - Collectors
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Acquisition-
Description
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18th century - 19th century, Commissioned by the Igun Eronmwon or guild of brass casters in the Kingdom of Benin for a royal memorial altar; given by inheritance to Oba Ovonramwen (ca. 1857-1914; r. 1888-97), Royal Palace, Benin City; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession after the conquest of the Kingdom of Benin; collected by Consul Eduard Schmidt, employee of the Woermann line, between 1897 and 1898 in the territory of later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 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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