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Ceremonial sword "flat"; old, flat
"Eben" is the name of a ceremonial sword that was associated with the metal god Ogun and his powers. During ceremonies in honor of a deceased Oba (king), the officiating Oba and other dignitaries danced with such swords. As a climax, they touched the ancestral altar of the deceased king to establish contact with him in the otherworldly upper world. Also, during the ceremonies for the initiation of a crown prince into the adult world, he danced with "eben" and twirled it in the air in honor of his ancestors to capture the sun's reflection of the upper world. Text: Dietmar Neitzke.
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Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Edo
- Object type
- Ceremonial sword
- Dimensions
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Length: 103 cm
Width: 24 cm - Material/Technique
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Copper alloy
soldered, Lost wax process
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 118740
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Nigeria
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Change of physical control
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when
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1956
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- Provenance
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The sword came to the Linden Museum through a exchange deal with the ethnographic dealer Arthur Speyer. Text: Markus Himmelsbach.
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- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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