Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main: 12214

Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main: 12214
Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main: 12214

 

Object description
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Object Name Ceremonial sword
Description OrNr. 22 137. Wide, leaf-shaped, openwork blade. Transverse large ring handle. Repair irons applied to both sides in several places. Braided bars in the hilt partially detached. Overall badly damaged and broken, partly old mended (Ugie Erha Oba-Fest). "The main ceremony is a lavish affair. Chiefs wear their most expensive costumes and dance with a ceremonial sword, eben, each trying to outdo the others in elegance and grace. The king wears his most elaborate beaded outfit and he, too dances with an eben - the highlight of the ceremony - before his father's altar. (85) LIT Pitt-Rivers 1976: pl XLII, 326, 327 - Bronze pl XLIII, 328, 329 - Eisen Ben Amos. 1980: The Art of Benin. London
Type Ceremonial device
Materials Iron
Size, Dimensions Length: 97 cm
Dating of Object

Museum / Collection / Acquisition
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Museum Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Museum Inv.-No 12214
Collector William Ockelford Oldman; Dealer
Acquisition date approx. 1910
Circumstances of acquisition - 02.1897: British 'Punitive Expedition'
- 1900: William Downing Webster (No. 9743);
offered in Illustrated Catalogue 24 for £sd 2.10.0
- […]: William Ockelford Oldman (No. 22137);
Purchase for £sd 1.0.0 from Webster
- 22.04.1910: Städtisches Völkermuseum, Frankfurt;
Purchase from William Ockelford Oldman for £sd 2.17.6
   
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Object Type weapon
Materials metal; iron
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ID 1224
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