German Contact Point for Collections from Colonial Contexts: Benin-Bronzes in Germany

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Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 033380




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Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 033380 License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)




Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 033380 License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)




Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 033380 License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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	Copper alloy sculpture depicting two men
Description	The group of figures shows two men standing next to each other and embracing. They wear decorative scars on their foreheads, but hardly any jewelry, so they are not to be addressed as high-ranking dignitaries. The stylized faces as well as the poorer quality of craftsmanship with a rough surface speak for a production in the late phase (after 1840). Perhaps it is a part of a larger scenery. In their "bronzes" the kingdom recorded important events for posterity, e.g. ruler's deeds, war campaigns or ceremonies and sacrifices. Thus, not only sacred relics were stolen, but also evidence of collective memory in a society without writing. Text: Dietmar Neitzke.
Type	Figurengruppe
Materials	Copper alloy
Size, Dimensions	Width: 13 cm. Heigth: 21.7 cm.
Dating of Object

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	Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Museum Inv.-No	033380
Collector	unknown
Acquisition date	1903
Circumstances of acquisition	It seems that the previous owner wanted to be anonym. The object is always listed in all documents, such as the inventory book, without the name of who they came from. Text: Markus Himmelsbach.

Notes	It seems that the previous owner wanted to be anonym.

Current ownership status and location

Status	restituted
Date of last status change	14 December 2022
Current ownership	Federal Republic of Nigeria
Holding institution	National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM, Nigeria)
Current location	Temporarily at the Linden-Museum Stuttgart

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Object Type	sculpture
Materials	metal; copper alloy
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Dataset

ID	149
last Change	2023-01-26 12:15:00
License	Linden-Museum Stuttgart

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