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Memorial head of a queen mother
Memorial head from the altar of a queen mother with the typical pointed and slightly forward-curved coral bead bonnet.
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Plastic
Dimensions
Gewicht: 19 kg
Höhe x Breite x Tiefe: 55 x 28 x 28 cm
Höhe x Breite x Tiefe: 55 x 28 x 28 cm
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 8191
Provenance and sources
where
Benin [kingdom]
when
18th cent.
where
Nigeria [Land]
who
Eduard Schmidt - Collectors
Description
18th century, commissioned by the Igun Eronmwon or guild of brass casters in the Kingdom of Benin; location unknown in the Kingdom of Benin until 1897; 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 what later became colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1898.
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