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

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Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 035456




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Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 035456 License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)




Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 035456 License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)




Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 035456 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	Figure (copper alloy) depicting a man carrying a sword
Description	This figure possibly stood on an ancestral altar. It shows a religious dignitary with the ceremonial sword "eben", with which during the ceremonies in honor of the ancestors was danced in front of their altar. At the ritual climax, the memorial heads of the ancestors were touched with "eben" to establish a connection with them. Text: Dietmar Neitzke.
Type	Figur
Materials	Copper alloy
Size, Dimensions	Width: 6.9 cm. Height: 21.9 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	035456
Collector	Hans Ziemann (Douala, Cameroon)
Acquisition date	1904
Circumstances of acquisition	Staff physician Dr Bludau arranged contact with Ziemann for the museum. Ziemann visited Old Calabar and met the King of Benin, Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, who had been imprisoned there by the English. It is said to be one of the few objects that the king was able to save during the storming of Benin and take with him when he fled. The king donated the figure to Ziemann in October 1902. Text: Markus Himmelsbach.

Notes	Ziemann visited Old Calabar and acquired the plaque from the King of Benin, who was emprisoned there. The king gave it to Ziemann as a gift in October 1902.

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	relief
Materials	metal; copper alloy
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Dataset

ID	150
last Change	2023-01-26 12:15:00
License	Linden-Museum Stuttgart

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