Digital Benin - Brooklyn Museum - 6_69020

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ObjectID: 69020

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Digital Benin linked field	Institution field	Value
object id	ObjectID	69020
designation, object type	Title	Box with lid
description	Description	Rectangular carved wooden box and lid with incised decoration. Lid has two carved illustrations that face in opposite directions from each other making it necessary to turn the box 180 degrees to see each carved illustration clearly. One illustration depicts a European seated on a chair with a utensil in his hands. A cup, pitcher, and four bottles are on a table in front of him; the other illustration shows a woman holding a sword in one hand and a spear in the other with a male attendant carrying a knife in a sheath across his chest on his proper left side, while holding a musical instrument horizontally in front of his face. The sides of the box show a man drinking while carrying an umbrella, a warrior holding a severed head, two headless bodies, a second warrior holding a gun, and a couple having intercourse. Three interior portions/chambers.
material	Medium	Wood
dimensions	Dimensions	4 7/16 × 27 7/8 × 7 5/8 in. (11.3 × 70.8 × 19.3 cm)
inscriptions	Inscriptions
date made	Alpha Sort 2	second half of 19th century
date made	Begin Date	1850
production place	Geography	Place made: Benin City, Royal Court of Benin, Edo State, Nigeria, Africa
prior source	Credit Line	Gift of Arturo and Paul Peralta-Ramos
provenance	Provenance	Prior to 1953, provenance not yet documented; before 1953, reportedly Julius Carlebach, New York; by 1953, acquired by Millicent A. Rogers; 1953, Millicent A. Rogers to Arturo and Paul Peralta-Ramos, by descent; 1956, gift of Arturo and Paul Peralta-Ramos to the Brooklyn Museum.
ethnic attribution	Alpha Sort	Edo
ethnic attribution	Maker	Edo
exhibition history	Exhibition History	"Benin - Court Arts from West Africa." Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, May 8 - September 3, 2007; Musee du Quai Branly, Paris, October 2, 2007 - January 6, 2008; Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, February 7, 2007 - May 25, 2008; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, June 27, 2008 - September 21, 2008. New York University, the Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY, "Images of power: art of the royal court of Benin," January 23 - February 21, 1981. Dartmouth College, "Nigerian Splendor," April 11 - May 5, 1980.
bibliography	Published References	Menut, Nicolas. L'homme blanc: les représentations de l'occidental dans les arts non-européens. Paris: Editions du Chêne, 2010, 72-3.Girshick (Ben-Amos), Paula. "Omada Art at the Crossroads of Colonialism" in Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002, pp 275-93. Fig. 11.3. Kaplan, Flora S., ed. "Images of Power: Art of the Royal Court of Benin." New York, NY: New York University, 1981, cat. 59. Hambly, 1930, pl. XXII.
	Object Number	56.6.63a-b
	Sort Number	1956 6 63a b