patu pounamu / mer | Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
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Slash and thrust weapon
The mere or patu, made of different materials, were regarded by Māori as important status symbols and were also effective weapons. Used as cutting and thrusting weapons against head and body, they could inflict dangerous wounds on the opponent with their sharp edges. Text: Ulrich Menter
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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Cultural attribution
Māori
Object type
Hieb- und Stoßwaffe
Dimensions
Length: 36.8 cm
Width: 10.8 cm
Depth: 1.8 cm
Width: 10.8 cm
Depth: 1.8 cm
Material/Technique
Nephrite, Textile
sawn, cut, chiselled, drilled
sawn, cut, chiselled, drilled
Current location
Linden-Museum
Stuttgart
Inventory number
004467
Provenance and sources
when
18th/19th century.
where
New Zealand
when
1899
Provenance
Albert Hahl
(1868-1945) was Vice-Governor of the Eastern Caroline Islands
(Micronesia) from 1899 to 1901 and held the office of Governor of German
New Guinea from 1902 to 1914. Even before this time, he was imperial
judge for the Bismarck Archipelago from 1896 to 1898, based in what was
then Herbertshöhe, now Rabaul in New Britain. The weapon was presumably
acquired during that period – in the historical inventory book its
origin is incorrectly listed as "Weberhafen [Kambeira Bay], Gazelle
Peninsula" in the north of the island of New Britain. Whether this was a
false attribution by the museum or whether the object was actually
acquired in New Britain is unclear, as is the history of the object
before its acquisition by A. Hahl. Text: Ulrich
Menter
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