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Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 122118




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Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 122118 License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)




Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 122118 License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)




Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 122118 License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)




Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 122118 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 of a man wearing a headdress and holding a spear and a shield
Description	This figure was later partially re-melted, possibly during the pillaging during the conquest. It shows a squatting man. His equipment with a large shield, a cutting weapon (?) in his hand, armor (?) and a bell around his neck makes an interpretation as a military commander plausible. The military was as strictly hierarchically organized as the rest of society. Within a few days, according to European sources (Dappert), up to 80,000 soldiers could be mobilized. Text: Dietmar Neitzke.
Type	Figur
Materials	Copper alloy
Size, Dimensions	Width: 14 cm. Height: 17.6 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	122118
Collector	Ludwig Bretschneider (München, Germany)
Acquisition date	1961
Circumstances of acquisition	The object came to the Linden Museum through a exchange deal with the ethnographic dealer Ludwig Bretschneider. 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	sculpture
Materials	metal; copper alloy
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Dataset

ID	161
last Change	2023-01-26 12:15:00
License	Linden-Museum Stuttgart

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