Naast de cilindervormige armbanden gebruiken de Oba en chiefs ook armringen, die bij gewone gelegenheden gedragen kunnen worden. Deze exemplaren zijn niet feestgebonden, 'gewone' burgers konden deze versies ook dragen.
Vele bewerkte dunne armbanden had
Materiaal en techniek (NB: ook thesaurustermen aanpassen!)material
'The Museum Volkenkunde purchased a bracelet (RV-2799-2) on 8 April 1949, another bracelet (RV-2837-1) in December 1949 and a brass figure (RV-2975-1) on 14 January in 1952 from Matthias Ludovicus (Louis) Joannes Lemaire (1891 – 1979) who founded his galerie Lemaire in 1933 (MR-L: NL-LdnRMV-A03_066_0070).
A letter from 23 March 1949 lists the bracelet (RV-2799-2) as one of the acquisitions given ‘for viewing’, but does not provide any other information apart from a price of fl. 250 (NL-LdnRMV-A1-135-317/318). Von Luschan (1919: 407-408) discusses similar bracelets with two human heads and catfish coming out of the nose and writes that he knows of three examples like these (1919). One other example can be found in the collection of the Pitt-Rivers museum, object no. 1900.39.14 (Pitt-Rivers Museum 2012a).'
(Excerpt from Provenance no. 2 'The Benin Collections at the National Museum of World Cultures' written by Rosalie Hans with Annette Schmidt, 20-01-2021)
Bedaux, R.M.A.
1990 De geschiedenis van de Leidse Benin-verzameling. In: A. Duchâteau, Benin: vroege hofkunst uit Afrika. Brussel: 167.
For more information about the provenance, see <a href="https://issuu.com/tropenmuseum/docs/2021_provenance_2__benin__e-book" target="_blank"> Provenance #2 – the Benin collections at the National Museum of World Cultures </a> (NB: Issuu uses cookies).