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Bottle

Made from a calabash gourd (lagenaria siceraria, also known as "bottle gourd"). Used to transport and store milk. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.

Data Provider
Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Bergdama
Object type
Kalebasse
Dimensions
Diameter: 10.7 cm
Height: 15 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Pumpkin, Plant fibre Fire painting, carved, pierced, braided
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
F 10243

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Bülow; 0030
  • Production
    when
    around 1893
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Namibia
Provenance
This collection is the oldest collection from "German South-West Africa" at the Linden Museum. Most of the objects came much later, mainly after 1900. In his letters to Graf von Linden, Bülow complained that there was little of "ethnographic" interest in situ and thus also justified the small number of objects sent. Bülow also had an object made especially for Linden. This was done through the mediation of the teacher Josaphat Kamatoto, who, among other things, travelled to the first German colonial exhibition in Berlin in 1896. Text: Christoph Rippe.

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