Dagger | Photographer: Axel Killian
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Dagger
According to the collector, this wooden dagger with a shark's tooth blade was “used by jealous women […] to slice open the cheeks of their female enemies”. It is questionable if this is really true or rather an exotic myth drawn from colonial stereotypes in circulation at the time concerning the supposed violence of the Nauru people.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Dolch
Dimensions
Länge: 380.0 mm, Breite: 57.0 mm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1472
Provenance and sources
when
before 1900
when
24.04.1900
where
Micronesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Nauru (location/origin)
Provenance
Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Ludwig Kaiser on Nauru on behalf of Eugen and Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) /Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Ludwig Kaiser on Nauru on behalf of Eugen and Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit)
Object no. 141 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 1st consignment April 1900, SAF D.Sm 35/1): "A hand weapon. Wood with shark's tooth". Additional comment: "No. 141 and 142 show hand weapons as they were used by jealous women to tear open the cheeks of their enemies. No. 141 is a very rare specimen. The tip is a shark's tooth." (in: "Bemerkungen zu den dem Museum zu Freiburg /B. übersandten ethnologischen Gegenständen aus den Marshallinseln. South Seas". SAF D.Sm 35/1).
The objects in the Brandeis collection from Nauru were apparently collected by the local district governor Ludwig Kaiser (SAF C3/241/1).
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