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Bronze plate (fragment): Musician with transverse trumpet, chain
Fragment of a relief plate from the royal court. It shows a musician with a cross-blown trumpet, which served to announce the Oba (king). Next to it, he carries a square bell that ushered in ceremonies at ancestral altars. The necklace with leopard's teeth also refers to the royal domain. Text: Dietmar Neitzke.
In October 1898, the Hamburg company "H. Bey & Co" offered the Berlin Ethnological Museum a Benin collection that came directly from Africa. However, due to a lack of funds, the entire collection could not be purchased and was therefore to be passed on to other interested parties. Felix von Luschan of the Berlin Museum therefore informed Karl Graf von Linden in November 1898, and offered him a right of first refusal. The Linden Museum then made 15,000 M available for the purchase of objects. The purchase price was paid by the Heilbronn entrepreneur Karl Knorr, which is why the collection became known as "Die Karl Knorr'sche Sammlung von Benin-Altertümern". Von Luschan published a detailed description of the collection under the same title (1901) on behalf of Count Linden and Knorr. Other buyers of the collection included the museums in Vienna and Munich, but also people such as Hans Meyer (Leipzig) and Eugen Rautenstrauch (Cologne). Text: Markus Himmelsbach.
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Bronze plate: Man with flat, pearl cap and ruff
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Bronze, man with "pigtail hairstyle" and belly bow
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Bronze plaque: Man with pearl necklace, helmet and book ?
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Bronze plate: depiction of a Portuguese
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Bronze plate, man with helmet, damaged
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Bronze plate (damaged): Army commander with armour, helmet,
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Bronze plaque: man with snake belt, pearl shirt,
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Bronze plate: Man with staff and dagger (one piece broken out)
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Bronze plate: military leader with feather cloak and crown, bell
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Bronze plate, European with manilla
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