Sammlung Weltkulturen der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen: IV Af 678

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Sammlung Weltkulturen der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen: IV Af 678

 

Object description
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Object Name relief fragment
Description Small relief fragment with a snake shaped ornament plus one smaller fragment
Type relief
Materials copper alloy
Size, Dimensions length: 29,00 cm; width 13,00 cm
Dating of Object

Museum / Collection / Acquisition
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Museum Sammlung Weltkulturen der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen
Museum Inv.-No IV Af 678 (53294)
Collector
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 677 and 679). The Berlin museum 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

Status
Date of last status change
Current ownership
Holding institution
Current location

Categorization for the search functions
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Object Type relief
Materials metal; copper alloy
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Dataset

ID 1248
last Change 2022-10-04 12:01:30
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