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Height: 35,3 cm Width: 6 cm Depth: 6 cm Weight: 1,1 kg
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 18149
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
18th century - 19th century
where
Nigeria
Benin
Collecting
who
H. Bey & Co. - Former Possessors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
18th century - 19th century, commissioned work in the Kingdom of Benin; in unknown possession before 1897; probably 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 1899 in the territory of the later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1904.
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Mallet for metallophone
kaval ?
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kaval (?)
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Anthropomorphic figure with skull
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Cone drum
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String bow
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Clay flute (fragment)
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craning
genderang
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genderang
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Clay flute
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Clay flute (fragment)
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