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Bow

From the Maji Maji War

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
keine Zuschreibung
Object type
Weapon
Dimensions
L: 121 cm; D: 2.4 cm
Material/Technique
Wood/leather
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Ethnologische Sammlung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Inventory number
ESG_Af 2185
Other number(s)
Berliner Inv. Nr. III E 14764 (Akte 38/07) (Old inventory number)
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Before 1907
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Unknown type of acquisition
    where
    Africa, East Africa, Tanzania
    who
    Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Donation
    when
    1939
    where
    Ethnological Collection of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
    who
    Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin (heute Ethnologisches Museum Berlin)
Secondary literature
Bestandskatalog Afrika (IV) der Ethnologischen Sammlung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (hrsg. von P. Fuchs/ G. Krüger, Göttingen 1993), online unter https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/617641.html

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CC0 1.0 DEED
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