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Knife
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.
- Data Provider
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Ambo
- Object type
- Dolch
- Dimensions
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Length: 44.3 cm
Width: 3.8 cm - Material/Technique
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Iron, Wood
Forged, carved, plugged in
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 085991 a+b
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Production
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when
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around 1914 or earlier
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Namibia
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Change of physical control
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when
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1914
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- Provenance
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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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