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Height: 28 cm Width: 6,5 cm Depth: 6 cm Weight: 0,4 kg
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 18150
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
18th century - 19th century
where
Nigeria
Benin
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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Clay whistle
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Clapper bell
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Heteroglotte Jew's harps
sanai*
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sanai
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Bell
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endingidi
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Tubular lute with bow
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Fragment of a clay rattle (clay head)
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sarang
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Transverse horn
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