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Knife
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In Owambo societies this used to be a highly valued personal possession at the time when this particular knife was dispatched to Stuttgart. At least one knife would be carried by its owner, and especially by men, at all times. Mostly used as a multi-functional, practical tool. When needed it also provided a means of self-defence. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.

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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ambo
Object type
Dolch
Dimensions
Länge: 44.3 cm, Breite: 3.8 cm
Material/Technique
Iron, Wood
Forged, carved, plugged in
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
085991 a+b

Provenance and sources

when
around 1914 or earlier

where
Namibia

when
1914
who
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Provenance
Carlos Grethe owned a private ethnographic collection from many world regions (Japan, Sri Lanka, Canada, Paraguay, Tanzania, Cameroon, New Guinea, Namibia and others). After the death of her husband (1913) Lilli Grethe handed over this collection of originally 200 objects to the Linden Museum (1914). The exact origin of the individual objects is not yet traceable. Text: Christoph Rippe.

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED

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