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Linden-Museum Stuttgart: F 51779 L




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Linden-Museum Stuttgart: F 51779 L License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)




Linden-Museum Stuttgart: F 51779 L License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)




Linden-Museum Stuttgart: F 51779 L License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)




Linden-Museum Stuttgart: F 51779 L 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	Altar bell (copper alloy)
Description	On the one hand, these bells stood on the ancestral altars. Here the ceremonies were "rung in" with them. On the other hand, high-ranking soldiers wore them around their necks as amulets and insignia of rank. This one shows particularly pronounced the square shape of the bells, which refers to the four cardinal directions, the four times of day as well as the 4-day week. Text: Dietmar Neitzke.
Type	Glocke
Materials	Copper alloy; Iron
Size, Dimensions	Width: 10 cm. Height: 14 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	F 51779 L
Collector	Paulette de Myttenaere (Brussels, Belgium)
Acquisition date	1976
Circumstances of acquisition	The donation from Paulette de Myttenaere is related to an acquisition from the ethnographic dealer Charles-Jackes Massar. 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
This information was included by the German Contact Point for Collections from Colonial Contexts and is intended to make the object easier to find in the database.

Object Type	bell
Materials	metal; copper alloy
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Dataset

ID	162
last Change	2023-01-26 12:15:00
License	Linden-Museum Stuttgart

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