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Benin [kingdom]
Photographer: Martin Franken | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Depictions of pages with fans can be found on many relief panels depicting the king, dignitaries or high-ranking military officers. During ceremonies in which these people appeared in elaborate robes with heavy jewellery, fans primarily had a practical function, but they were also used for ritual purposes: Court dwarves prayed over a fan for the welfare of the king; medicine blown over a fan could weaken an opponent. Fans were usually made from dried skin. Fans made of brass were reserved for the king.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Relief plaque
- Dimensions
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Weight: 1,7 kg
Height: 40,8 cm
Depth: 2,3 cm
Width: 18,5 cm - Material/Technique
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Brass, copper alloy
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 8456
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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16th 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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Heinrich Bey - Collectors
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Description
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16th cent, commissioned by Oba Esigie (r. 1517-1550) or his son Oba Orhogbua (r. 1550-1570), Royal Palace, Benin City; by inheritance to Oba Ovonramwen (ca. 1857-1914; r. 1888-97), Royal Palace, Benin City; 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 1898 in the territory of later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1899.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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