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Benin [kingdom]
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Osun rod
Rods on the Osun altars not only symbolise the power of the plants of the forest, their material, iron, contains this power itself. They were used by ritual specialists in oracles, for healing and above all as a means against witchcraft, an all-encompassing threat. Birds, snakes, chameleons and animal horns filled with dangerous substances illustrate the occult powers.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Plastic
- Dimensions
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Height: 160 cm
Depth: 21 cm
Width: 38 cm
Weight: 41,2 kg
Depth: 176 cm - Material/Technique
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Iron, Brass
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 8505
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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