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Height: 97 cm Width: 4,5 cm Depth: 1,5 cm Length: 97 cm Width: 4 cm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 7626
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
19th century
where
Nigeria
Collecting
who
Fenton & Sons - Antiquities, Armour - Former Possessors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
Commissioned in the Kingdom of Benin before 1897; ownership before 1897 currently unknown; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; owned by Fenton & Sons until 1998; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1898.
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Military leader
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Fish
Agere Ifa
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Offering bowl
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Calabash
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Blowing horn
Ada
Language: Bini
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Ceremonial sword
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Tuning resin for drumheads
uhunmwun-ekhue
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Belt mask (uhunmwun-ekhue) with the image of an Oba
omele ako
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omele ako, Omo'le Bata
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Leopard skull
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