Production
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where
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Benin [kingdom]
Photographer: Jörg von Bruchhausen | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Gedenkkopf einer Königinmutter (Memorial head of a queen mother)
The large number of commemorative heads from this period are highly formalised. Their faces are largely identical, whereas the royal insignia are more elaborate and their shapes vary; in contrast to the king's round cap, the queen mother wears a pointed, slightly forward-curved cap made of coral beads.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Sculpture (Sculpture)
- Dimensions
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Height: 50 cm
Width: 24 cm
Depth: 25 cm
Weight: 12,9 kg - Material/Technique
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Brass
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 7660
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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Nigeria
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Collecting
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who
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Hale & Son - Former Possessors
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Description
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19th century, commissioned for a royal memorial altar; location unknown in the Kingdom of Benin until 1897; looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; auctioned by the firm of Hale & Son, 1897; purchased at auction by the Royal Museum of Ethnology, 1897.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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