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Main historical catalogue: "Antelope horn with a long pointed iron shoe, used as war medicine by the Wassiba chiefs. Several such horns are stuck in a bundle of hay lying in the front room of the hut to the side of the door. 62 cm lg. Wassiba"

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Wassiba
Object type
War medicine
Dimensions
Weight: 0,55 kg
Height: 63 cm
Width: 8,5 cm
Depth: 14 cm
Height: cm
Depth: cm
Width: cm
Material/Technique
Horn (antelope), Iron, Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III E 4777

Provenance and sources

where
Tanzania [Land/Region]
who
Wassiba
who
Kollmann, Paul - Collectors

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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