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Knives

Knife with large flat blade (hatchet-shaped), round handle wrapped in wire, blade decorated on one side (blacksmith's art)

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Data Provider
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Nzimu
Object type
Messer
Dimensions
Handle: 9.3 cm long; blade: 13 cm long
Material/Technique
wood (plant material), iron (metal)
Forged, carved
Object genre
tool
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2517
Other number(s)
2517 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    where
    Kamerun
    Zentralafrika
    Afrika
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    when
    before 1918
    where
    Kamerun
    Zentralafrika
    Afrika
    who
    Stetten, Freiherr Richard von - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Donation
    when
    1939
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Description
    Alexander von Stetten (presumably the father of R. von Stetten) donated the object to the Linden Museum.
  • Change of physical control:
    Exchange
    when
    15.12.1971
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners
    Description
    JGU Mainz received object in exchange with Linden-Museum.

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CC0 1.0 DEED
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