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Transverse trumpet
Transverse trumpet with two snakes and three chameleons
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Höhe x Breite x Tiefe: ca. 28 x 6,5 x 6 cm
Gewicht: 0,4 kg
Gewicht: 0,4 kg
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 18150
Provenance and sources
where
Benin [kingdom]
when
18th century - 19th century
where
Nigeria [Land]
Benin [Königreich]
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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