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Short sword

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The double-edged blade of the sword widens towards the centre of the sword, then narrows again just before the point and widens again at the point, ending in a crescent-shaped blade. The area in front of the handle has a ricasso. The handle itself is made of polished wood, which becomes a round pommel. Received from the Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, from the "Sendung der Forschungs-Station Kamerun (Hauptmann Kund)". In the corresponding catalogue, the object is described as a "war knife", origin "Báne". The museum's index card states "Donated by the Berlin Ethnological Museum in 1889", but the object is entered in the accession catalogue NLA OL Rep. 751, Akz. 2010/054, No. 308, in 1890.

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
keine Zuschreibung
Object type
Short sword
Dimensions
L: 55 cm
Material/Technique
Metal/wood
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg
Inventory number
LMNM_0309
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Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1890
  • Change of physical control:
    Unknown type of acquisition
    where
    Africa, Cameroon
    who
    Kund, Richard - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control:
    Donation
    when
    1890
    where
    State Museum of Nature and Man Oldenburg
    who
    Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin (heute Ethnologisches Museum Berlin)

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