id:			117894
accession number:	1938.5
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.5
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:35.426000

Idiophone/Staff (ahianmwẹn-ọrọ), possibly 1800s. Nigeria, Benin Kingdom, Ẹdo peoples, members of the Igun Eronmwon (royal brasscasters) guild. Copper alloy; overall: 36.2 x 9.9 cm (14 1/4 x 3 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Albert Ford Memorial Fund 1938.5

title:				Idiophone/Staff (ahianmwẹn-ọrọ)
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series:				
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creation date:			possibly 1800s
creation date earliest:		1800
creation date latest:		1899
current location:		108A Sub-Saharan
creditline:			James Albert Ford Memorial Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Nigeria, Benin Kingdom, Ẹdo peoples, members of the Igun Eronmwon (royal brasscasters) guild
technique:	Copper alloy
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 36.2 x 9.9 cm (14 1/4 x 3 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Treasure of Ivories and Bronzes from the Ancient Kingdom of Benin
	opening date:   1937-03-10T05:00:00
	<i>Treasure of Ivories and Bronzes from the Ancient Kingdom of Benin</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-April 11, 1937).

	title:		Baldwin Lectures of Mr. Roy Sieber
	opening date:   1972-03-05T05:00:00
	<i>Baldwin Lectures of Mr. Roy Sieber</i>. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (organizer) (March 5-31, 1972).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Knoedlers, NY, Exhibition of Bronzes and Ivories from the Ancient Kingdom of Benin, November 25-December 4, 1935, cat. no. 28, fig. 28.', 'opening_date': '1935-11-25T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA 1937: Ivories and Bronzes from the Ancient Kingdom of Benin, cat. #28.', 'opening_date': '1937-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Seattle, WA, Seattle Art Museum, The Bird in Art, June 6-August 12, 1956.', 'opening_date': '1956-06-06T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Oberlin, OH, Allen Art Museum, Baldwin Lectures of Mr. Roy Sieber, March 5-March 31, 1972.', 'opening_date': '1972-03-05T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Commissioned from the Igun Eronmwon
	date: possibly 1800s
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	By descent to Ọba Ovọnramwẹn (Ovọnramwẹn Nogbaisi, [c. 1857–1914; r. 1888–97], Royal Palace, Benin City
	date: c.1857–1897
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	Brought to Europe following the Siege of Benin
	date: 1897
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	(Fosters & Co., London or France, probably sold to Louis Carré and/or Charles Ratton)
	date: c. 1929–1932
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <div><!--block-->Savoy, Bénédicte, Charlotte Guichard, and Christine Howald. 2018. Acquiring cultures: histories of&nbsp;<br>world art on Western markets. P. 274</div>
			
			
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	(Louis Carré, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, January 17, 1938)
	date: by at least 1935
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <div><!--block-->Louis Carré by at least 1935&nbsp;<br>• Exhibited at M. Knoedler and Company NYC Nov-December 1935; as number 28 (described and&nbsp;<br>illustrated)&nbsp;<br>Louis Carré, Paris, by at least 1937&nbsp;<br>• Illustrated in Negatives 963447 and 963448, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives</div>
			
			
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1938–
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			* <div><!--block-->Purchase/Carré provenance publicized in CMA Bulletin March 1938 (Helen S. Foote, “Two Bronzes&nbsp;<br>from Benin, pp. 49-50, 48)</div>
			
			
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Foote, Helen S. "Two Bronzes from Benin." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 25, no. 3 (1938): 48-50.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 50; illustrated p. 48
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	Lane, James W. "Current Exhibitions." <em>Parnassus </em>Vol. 7, no. VII (December 1935): 26-31, 35.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 31.
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	"Au Cleveland Museum of Art." <em>Mouseion. </em>(April 1938) 13-14.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 13
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	Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 4, p. 15
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	Petridis, Constantine. "A World of Great Art for Everyone." In <em>Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display</em>. Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Christa Clarke, 104-121. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 113, 119
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	<em>Bronzes and Ivories from the Old Kingdom of Benin: Exhibition from November 25 to December 14, 1935 At the Galleries of M. Knoedler and Company 14 East 57 Street New York City. </em>New York: M. Knoedler and Company, [1935].
	page number: 	Mentioned: Fig. 28 (illustrated)
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	Windmuller-Luna, Kristen. “Art from the Benin Kingdom.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 34-35.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 34; Mentioned: P. 35.
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	<em>Digital Benin, </em>Markk Museum Am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Kunste der Welt<em>, (</em>Last Updated: 2021-02-13)
	page number: 	ID 117894
	url:		https://digitalbenin.org/catalogue/8_117894

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