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Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz: III C 7620

Object description
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Object Name	Prunk-Speer (Parade speer)
Description
Type	Parade speer
Materials	Messing, verziert
Size, Dimensions	Länge: 120,00 cm (Schaft); Breite: 9,00 cm (Schaftende); Länge: 175,00 cm (gesamt)
Dating of Object

Museum / Collection / Acquisition
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Museum	Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Museum Inv.-No	III C 7620
Collector	Fenton & Sons - Antiquities, Armour (1893), Veräußerer
Acquisition date	1898
Circumstances of acquisition	In Auftrag gegeben im Königreich Benin vor 1897; möglicherweise geplündert im Zusammenhang mit der britischen Eroberung Benins, 1897; bis 1998 im Besitz der Firma Fenton & Sons; verkauft an das Königliche Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1898.

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Categorization for the search functions
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Object Type	weapon
Materials	metal; brass
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Dataset

ID	622
last Change	2021-05-30 00:00:00
License	Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

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