dance-sword
- Museum number
- Af1949,46.167
- Description
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Iron eben, or chief's ceremonial dancing sword.
- Production date
- 16thC - 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 114.50 centimetres
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Weight: 2202 grammes
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Width: 34.50 centimetres
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Depth: 21 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register note by W B Fagg: "Dancing sword, type Eben, awarded to all chiefs".
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1970-1973, London, Museum of Mankind, Divine Kingship in Africa
1993-1997, London, Museum of Mankind, Great Benin: a West African Kingdom
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Acquisition notes
- The series Af1949,46.1 to 845 is the African part of the collection formed by the London dealer William Ockelford Oldman in the years ca.1894-1926, purchased from his widow in 1949. See his biography.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1949,46.167