Sammlung Weltkulturen der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen: IV Af 677
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Object description
This information was provided by the German museum where the object is currently located or where it was located prior to restitution.
| Object Name | relief fragment |
| Description | Small relief fragment with a half moon ornament |
| Type | relief |
| Materials | copper alloy |
| Size, Dimensions | length: 24,00 cm; width 15,00 cm |
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Museum / Collection / Acquisition
This information was provided by the German museum where the object is currently located or where it was located prior to restitution.
| Museum | Sammlung Weltkulturen der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen |
| Museum Inv.-No | IV Af 677 (41462) |
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| Acquisition date | 1921 |
| Circumstances of acquisition | Received as a loan and donation from the Royal Museum of Ethnology in Berlin together with two other relief fragments (IV Af 678 and 679). The Berlin museum in turn received it from the company H. Bey operating at the Nigerian coast. The director of the Berlin museum, Felix von Luschan, bought a collection of artefacts from Bey in 1898. Later, these relief fragments then classified as dublets, were given to the Mannheim museum. |
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Current ownership status and location
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Categorization for the search functions
This information was included by the German Contact Point for Collections from Colonial Contexts and is intended to make the object easier to find in the database.
| Object Type | relief |
| Materials | metal; copper alloy |
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Dataset
| ID | 1243 |
| last Change | 2022-10-04 12:01:30 |
| License | Sammlung Weltkulturen der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen |