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Southern Africa (?)
V 15266 N | Rights management: futurum vogtland e. V. (Museum Burg Mylau)
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Spear with barbed
This artefact is a (Herero) hunting spear with barbs on one side. It was used for hunting birds and soft-skinned small animals as well as for fishing. Some consider these arrows to be more suitable for fishing than for bird for fishing rather than bird hunting, as the pierced fish is held on the spear by the barbs. the spear. It is also noteworthy that some (preserved) Ovambo arrows from the 19th and 20th centuries are designed in the same way (see are designed in the same way (see Allan, Bradfield & Lombard 2016). The basic Ovambo arrow shape was already well established before their arrival in Namibia and was also influenced by contact with earlier cultures in Namibia such as the cultures in Namibia such as the Hai‖om (Allan, Bradfield & Lombard 2016). influenced (Allan, Bradfield & Lombard 2016). It is possible that other cultures in Namibia may have been influenced by the design of the Ovambo weapons so that they adopted this arrow shape for a spear. Since the object has no visible book marks on its end, it can be ruled out traces at its end, it can be ruled out that it is an arrow whose nock lost due to age and/or handling. The collector and the exact circumstances of the acquisition remain (processing status: 2023) remain unclear. Due to the presumed colonial collection context, the object is still to be categorised as sensitive. categorised as sensitive.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- hunting spears
- Dimensions
- 178,5 cm
- Material/Technique
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Wood, bark /
carved
- Labeling
- keine
- Current location
- Museum Burg Mylau
- Inventory number
- V 15266 N
Provenance and sources
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Production
- Secondary literature
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Allan Chrislyn, Justin Bradfield, & Marlize
Lombard, 2016: The form and function of Ovambo arrows: Exploring
agro-pastoralist hunting technology, Journal of Anthropological
Archaeology 44
Information about the record
- Funding
- The project "Provenance and History of the Mylau/Reichenbach Ethnological Collection" was 2022/23 funded by the Center for the Loss of Cultural Assets, the State Office for Museums Saxony and the Vogtland-Zwickau cultural area.
- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED
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