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Harpoon for catching hippos
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Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover
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Cultural attribution
Nubier
Object type
Utility item
Dimensions
L: 23 cm; B: 4,5 cm
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Landesmuseum Hannover
Inventory number
LMH_ET 1344
Related object(s)
is part of :
C. Reiche 1881 (Konvolut)
Provenance and sources
when
before 1881
where
Africa, North-East Africa, Sudan
who
Carl Reiche - Former Possessors
Description
Sudan was part of the established trading network of the animal trading company C. Reiche, Alfeld (also: Charles Reiche & Brother, New York). The company organised regular expeditions there and also brought people and objects to Europe in this way. The object mentioned above is most probably connected with "Reiche's Caravan from Nubia", 1878.
when
1881
where
Hanover State Museum
who
Tierhändler Carl Reiche, Alfeld
Description
Objects were used in the context of the Alfeld animal trade and most probably in the show "Reiche's Caravan from Nubia", 1878, Hanover Zoological Gardens. See brochure "Reiche's Karawane nach Nubien", Alfeld n.d. They may have been used/displayed at a hippopotamus show a few years earlier. See brochure "Hippos from Africa", Alfeld n.d., both from the Alfeld town archives.
Secondary literature
Andratschke, Claudia/ Müller, Lars: "Menschen, Thiere und leblose Gegenstände". Die Alfelder Tierhändler Reiche und Ruhe als Ausstatter von Völkerschauen, in: Lars Frühsorge, Sonja Riehn, Michael Schütte (Hg.): Völkerschau-Objekte. Lübeck 2021, 131-143
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