Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalAmulet (?)
Composed of beads made from ostrich egg shells and glass strung on leather cord. The object was classified as an "amulet" in the original inventory entry. However, no information was provided as to either the source of this classification, or to the specific cosmology that once gave social meaning and efficacy to this object. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.
- Data Provider
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Herero
- Object type
- Amulett
- Material/Technique
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recent resin, Ostrich eggshell, Glass
, Leather ground, pierced, threaded, knotted
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 028071
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Production
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when
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around 1900
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Namibia
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Change of physical control
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when
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1903
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- Provenance
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Dr. Anton Lübbert initially sent the collection to the Ethnological Museum in Berlin on the basis of the so-called Bundesrat resolution of 1889. Before it was forwarded to Stuttgart, Felix von Luschan selected and sorted the material there. In German South-West Africa, Lübbert had objects procured through "his collectors". Only a few months after the outbreak of the Herero-German War, in September 1904, Lübbert wrote to Linden that "it is already almost completely impossible to get Herero items". He had therefore "had the last stocks, which were in the hands of farmers and traders, bought up".
Text: Christoph Rippe.
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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