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V 15263 N | Rights management: futurum vogtland e. V. (Museum Burg Mylau)
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Decoration of a spear handle
The actual name and origin of this artefact is unknown. However, it could be surmised that it is an ornament on the handle of a ceremonial weapon such as a spear or an axe. spear or an axe. This can be observed on ceremonial weapons weapons of various African societies. Among the Zulu for example, most of the handles of spears and axes were decorated with knobkerrie but some were also decorated with such objects. Even on the handles of knobkerries were decorated in this way. Besides the purpose of beauty, such objects stabilised the weight of the weapon, which often seemed to be concentrated on the head, where the iron or brass blade was located. The collector and the exact circumstances of the acquisition circumstances of acquisition remain unclear to date (processing status: 2023). Due to the presumed colonial context of the collection, the object should still be categorised as sensitive.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- hunting spears
- Dimensions
- Length: 15 cm
- Material/Technique
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plaited
- Current location
- Museum Burg Mylau
- Inventory number
- V 15263 N
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- 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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