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Benin [kingdom]
Photographer: Eva Ritz | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Altar of the hand
The tendencies towards individualisation in Beninese art in the 18th and 19th centuries can be seen in the emergence of a new type of altar, the altar of the hand. While altars with memorial heads serve to honour the ancestors and the power they inherited, the veneration of the hand on the new altars stands for the individual abilities and achievements of the person. Altars of the king, but also those of dignitaries, show the clenched hand with the thumb outstretched.
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- Object type
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
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Weight: 8,2 kg
Height: 13,5 cm
Width: 60 cm
Depth: 33 cm
Height: 39 cm
Width: 26,5 cm
Depth: 26,5 cm
Weight: 17,35 kg
Height: 49 cm
Width: 60 cm
Depth: 33 cm
Weight: 9,15 kg - Material/Technique
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Wood
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 8758 a,b
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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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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William Downing Webster (1868-05-11 - 1913-01-14) - Collectors
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Commissioned in the Kingdom of Benin in the 19th century; ownership before 1897 currently unknown; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession between Feb. 1897 and 1899; acquired by the Museum of Ethnology from William D. Webster, 1899.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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