Production
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where
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Benin [kingdom]
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Sword pommel (?)
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- Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Sword pommel (?)
- Dimensions
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Objektmaß: D: 9 cm
Height: 5 cm
Width: 9 cm
Depth: 9 cm - Material/Technique
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Brass
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 8513
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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NigeriaBenin
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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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18th century - 19th century, commissioned work in the Kingdom of Benin; ownership before 1897 currently unknown; presumably 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 the 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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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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