Baessler-Archiv: Baessler-Archiv, 46/47=71/72.1998/99

Baessler-Archiv, 46/47=71/72.1998/99

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Werks-URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714814

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714814

Persistenter Identifier:: BV044347945

Titel:: Baessler-Archiv

Untertitel:: Beiträge zur Völkerkunde

ISSN:: 0005-3856

Erscheinungsort:: Berlin

Verlag:: Reimer

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1910

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Allgemeines

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Werks-URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711540

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711540

Persistenter Identifier:: 1501143206107

Titel:: Baessler-Archiv, 46/47=71/72.1998/99

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1999

Signatur:: LA 1255

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Strukturtyp:: Zeitschriftenheft

Titel:: N. F. Bd. 47, 1999, Heft 1

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Further Comments on Ife and Benin

Sonstige Person:: Willett, Frank

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Baessler-Archiv, Neue Folge, Band XLVII (1999) 151 FURTHER COMMENTS ON IFE AND BENIN FRANK WILLETT, Glasgow Abstract. This article consists of passages that, because of lack of space, were excised from the author's chapters on Ife and Benin in the catalogue “Afrika. Kunst und Kultur” (Berlin 1999) and should be read with them rather than separately. It records the earliest accounts of Ife to parallel those of Benin and discusses the use of the life-size bronze heads. The dating of Ife. the use of the terms Classical and Post-Classical Periods, post- classical terracottas, and the stone sculptures are discussed in turn. Works found in Benin but made elsewhere, the sequence of Benin art styles, the casting centre at Udo, brass stools, ivories, terracottas and the Lower Niger Bronzes are also discussed in turn. Lack of space in the catalogue of the new exhibition of the African collections at the Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, caused substantial parts to be removed from my essays on Ife and Benin. I am grateful for the possibility to publish them in “Baessler-Archiv” instead. It is unfortunate that much of the deleted material refers to the work of other people that needs to be mentioned to do justice to their efforts. The deleted passages do not all stand easily alone so it has been necessary to repeat parts of the original essays in order to put them into context. These are indicated by italics. They should of course be read in conjunction with the essays in the catalogue. The essays had been written to parallel each other since the first passage in the European travel literature refers to both Ife and Benin. Both essays then pursue the subsequent history of the discovery of the art of each place. Unfortunately the relevant section was deleted from the essay on Ife. Ife The earliest mention of Ife in the historical literature appears to be in the account of the first European visit to Benin by Jodo Affonso d’Aveiro reported in J. De Barms, "Da Asia”, published in Lisbon in 1552. There' we read that to the east of Benin there lived a powerful ruler called the Ogane, who was held in as much 1 Decada 1, livro iii, cap. iv, translated in G.R. Crone “The Voyages of Cadamosto”, London, 1937:126-127.

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