Catalogue
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19653
Institution
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Edo designations
English designations
Male Figure
Categories
Figures
Location
Schloßpl., 10178 Berlin, Germany
Male Figure
Male Figure
Male Figure
Male Figure

Iconographies

2 annotations
Ukpan obọ ọkpa
Single Beaded Baldric

Ukpan obọ ọkpa is a single baldric worn diagonally across the torso, from the left shoulder to the right hip. Barbara Blackmun described these baldrics as an “Ẹkpẹn band,” worn by figures as “a sign of distinction” ( ).

1 annotation
Ukpan obọ ọkpa
Round Neck Bead
Ikele
Coral bead circlet

Ikele is a single stiff string or circlet of coral beads. It is worn by chiefs, such as senior chiefs who have been made Enigie (Inneh 2007, p.107), and is a sign of nobility and rank. The Ikele may only be worn once the Ọba has conferred a person with the right to wear the beads, and the Ikele must always be worn when appearing before the Ọba. According to Ekhaguosa Aisien (in Plankensteiner 2007, cat. nr. 301, p.512) when a chief is wearing the Ikele, they may not eat nor drink in public, and they “constitute an embassy of the Benin Palace wherever he might be.”

1 annotation
Ikele

Provenance

4 events
Production
unknown to February 22, 1897 (day approximate)
The object was produced in Edo State.
Looted
February 22, 1897 (day approximate) to June 1899 (year approximate)
The object was looted by Unknown member of the British colonial military campaign on Benin - February 1897 from Benin Kingdom.
Unknown
February 22, 1897 (day approximate) to 1913
The object is known to have come into contact with William Downing Webster, later in London.
Purchase
February 22, 1897 (day approximate) to 1913
The object was purchased by the Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin from William Downing Webster from London to Berlin.

Related archival documents

3 documents
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An archival document representing a Price Lists of 2 page(s)
Price List
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Die Erwerbung ethnologischer Gegenstände aus der Benin-Expedition. Vol. 3
Date
April 6, 1900
An archival document representing a Invoices of 2 page(s)
Invoice
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Die Erwerbung ethnologischer Gegenstände aus der Benin-Expedition. Vol. 3
Date
May 24, 1900
Museum Catalogue
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Die Altertümer von Benin
Date
January 1, 1919 at 12:00:00 AM

Institution data

Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
The data was downloaded via a public data access of the institution.
Last updated: 2021-06-06
Language: german
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