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

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Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main: 04280




Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main: 04280




Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main: 04280




Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main: 04280

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	Pendant, plaque
Description	Shield-shaped, on it woman with rectangular object in her right hand. Eyelets around the edge partially broken off. "Pendant plaques are worn suspended from the waist. ... All are shaped in the form of a shield and rise at the top centrer, to form a largish suspension eyelet. All have a border of eyelets to which crotals were attached. Five types can be distinguished. .. In the third type a female figure, probably that of a queen mother, is represented wearing strands of beads crossing on the chest and a coral bead cap. .. the figure is shown holding up a square object in the right hand (mirror?) .(Dark, 56) PUBL Kat. 1975: Abb. 9 LIT Pitt-Rivers. 1976: pl. VIII, 43, 44 Dark 1962: the Art of Benin. Chicago. Abb. 287/8, p. 56f
Type	Jewelry
Materials	Brass casting/Yellow casting; brass with approximately equal amounts of tin, lead and zinc in the lower concentration range and elevated trace element concentrations.
Size, Dimensions	Height: 14.5 cm; Width: 12 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	Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Museum Inv.-No	04280
Collector	Hans(?) Schaumburg
Acquisition date	approx. 1910
Circumstances of acquisition	- 1904?: Hans? Schaumburg, acquired in Nigeria? - ca. 1906: Städtisches Völkermuseum, Frankfurt; Purchase from Schaumburg

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Object Type	pendant
Materials	metal; brass
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ID	1188
last Change	2022-02-03 11:42:17
License	Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main

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