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Female figure with with medicine container

Square medicine container on the belly. Traces of breakage on the back suggest that the figure was once part of a larger carving. The fractures have been blackened. The front parts of the feet are broken off. 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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Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
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Cultural attribution
Bangwa
Object type
Female figure with with medicine container
Dimensions
H: 22 cm
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
Inventory number
SMBS_1709-0011-00 A III c 404; Vw 1.8-61/2
Related object(s)
is part of : 1. Konvolut Strümpell (Konvolut)

Provenance and sources

when
before 1902

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. It is possibly a work from the workshop of the Bangwa artist Ateu Atsa (cf. Lintig 2001, p. 79)

when
1902
where
Braunschweig Municipal Museum
who
Kurt Strümpell
Secondary literature
B. von Lintig, „Die bildende Kunst der Bangwa : Werkstatt-Traditionen und Künstlerhandschriften“. Akad. Verl., München, 1994.; D. Hecht, „Katalog der afrikanischen Sammlung im Städtischen Museum Braunschweig. Braunschweiger Werkstücke ; 37“. Waisenhaus-Buchdr. und Verl., Braunschweig, 1968.

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