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Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 037235




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Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 037235 License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)




Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 037235 License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)




Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 037235 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 stand to support elephant tusks
Description	Elephant tusks stood on the ancestral altars in the courtyards of the royal palace either in the metal memorial heads (which have a suitable opening at the top) or in such holders / feet. The Frenchman Landolphe reported in the 18th century of over 3,000 large tusks in the palace. In 1897, 130 were found on the 13 ancestral altars of the residence and stolen. Since 1651, however, Europeans have also reported appropriately constructed ancestral altars in wealthy burghers' houses. With the help of these holders, the tusks could be placed vertically, representing the world axis connecting the earthly sphere with the otherworldly one in heaven. Text: Dietmar Neitzke.
Type	Halterung
Materials	Copper alloy
Size, Dimensions	Heigth: 16.7 cm. Diameter: 20.7 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	037235
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

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Object Type	sculpture
Materials	metal; copper alloy
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Dataset

ID	155
last Change	2023-01-26 12:15:00
License	Linden-Museum Stuttgart

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