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Uhunmwu-Elao (commemorative head of an oba)
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This work is one of the bronze, ivory and wooden artworks broadly known as the “Benin Bronzes."
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
The royal palace Benin City; probably taken by British forces during the British colonial military campaign on Benin City 1897. [1] [Louis Carré Paris] sold; [through Knoedler & Co. New York]; to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller New York January 3 1936 gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1937
Notes
[1] While we do not have documentation of this work’s presence in Benin City in 1897 due to the nature of this object it is unlikely that it left at any other time. Additionally the location of the work after 1897 is unknown until it was sold by the French dealer Louis Carré through the New York dealership Knoedler & Co. in 1936. The sculpture has an export stamp from France suggesting it was there for an unknown period prior its export to the United States.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Title: Uhunmwu-Elao (commemorative head of an oba)
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This work is one of the bronze, ivory and wooden artworks broadly known as the “Benin Bronzes.
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