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Accession number:
80.112
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Digital Benin research
Edo designation
Ẹkpẹtin
English designation
Box
Category
Containers
Provenance
Maizel, Solomon
Location
5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202, United States
Institution data
Internal Data (eng)
Internal Data (eng)
Detroit Institute of Arts
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Last Updated: 2022-08-29
Language:
english
Accession number
object id
80.112
Title
designation
Kola Nut Box
Web Description
description
Medium
material
wood and metal
Dimensions
dimensions
Overall: 9 × 4 3/4 × 14 inches (22.9 × 12.1 × 35.6 cm)
Artwork/Object creation date
date made
19th century
Artist or Maker
producer
Benin, African
Donor/purchase credit line
prior source
Gift of Mr. Solomon Maizel
Provenance
provenance
Solomon Maizel (Wayne, New Jersey); 1980-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Curatorial department
department and institution
Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
Published References
bibliography
Bulletin of the DIA 59, no. 4 (1981): p. 110 (ill.). African Masterworks In The Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, cat. no. 35.
Credit line for reproduction
license
Benin, African, Kola Nut Box, 19th century, wood and metal. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. Solomon Maizel, 80.112.
Credit Line
Benin, African, Kola Nut Box, 19th century, wood and metal. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. Solomon Maizel, 80.112.