Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 037231

Linden-Museum-Stuttgart
Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 037231
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Object description
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Object Name Copper alloy rod with chameleon-shaped handle
Description The short staff was used in ritual contexts and shows significant symbolic animals on the upper part. The coiling snake stands as a "rainbow snake" for the connection between the upper world on the other side and the earth on this side. To show this vertical axis was an essential form criterion of art; to establish this connection the most important task of religious ceremonies. The chameleon embodies a religious specialist who, like this animal, can transform and take on different manifestations. Text: Dietmar Neitzke.
Type Stab
Materials Copper alloy
Size, Dimensions Heigth: 59 cm. Diameter: 8.8 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 037231
Collector Albert Hoffa (Berlin, Germany)
Acquisition date 1904
Circumstances of acquisition Albert Hoffa was a friend of Dr Anton Lübbert, who was also a collector of the Linden Museum and a doctor in German Southwest Africa. The latter also obtained Benin objects for Hoffa.The previous owner of these objects was Adolph Heemke, who worked as a merchant in West Africa and worked for the Hamburg company H. Bey & Co. which acquired objects directly in Benin and sent them to Germany where they were sold. Text: Markus Himmelsbach.
   
Notes

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

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

ID 152
last Change 2023-01-26 12:15:00
License Linden-Museum Stuttgart