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Transverse trumpet

Not yet found in collection. Description on old index card: "Small red ivory horn, similar to no. 416, ending in a stylised animal head." Pencil note: "Dubl." (duplicate) The spelling of the cultural attribution varies in the sources; on the old index cards in the museum the designation "Bangua" is predominantly used.

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Cultural attribution
Bangwa
Object type
Transverse trumpet
Dimensions
L: 27 cm
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
Inventory number
SMBS_1709-0184-00
Other number(s)
A III c 469 (Old inventory number)
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

Production
when
before 1902
Change of physical control:
Unknown type of acquisition
where
Africa, Cameroon, Southwest Cameroon
Description
Military interventions against the "Bangwa" took place in the collection period between 1901-1902, in which Strümpell was involved as a lieutenant or first lieutenant of the German Schutztruppe. The structural connection between military penetration and collecting points to a context of violence in which Strümpell acquired the "Bangwa" collection. As the attribution of the object to the "Bangwa" is unclear on the basis of the documentation, it remains unclear whether these military interventions apply as the context of acquisition.
Change of physical control:
Donation
when
1902
where
Braunschweig Municipal Museum
who
Kurt Strümpell

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