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This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
This artefact is a
(Herero) hunting spear made of wood with barbs on one side. It was used for
hunting birds and soft-skinned small animals and for fishing.
fishing. Because of their design, some consider these arrows more suitable for
for fishing rather than bird hunting, as the pierced fish is held on the spear by the barbs.
barbs on the spear. It is also noteworthy that
that some (preserved) Ovambo arrows from the 19th and 20th centuries are
the same way. The basic arrow shape of the Ovambo
was already well established before their arrival in Namibia and was also
through contact with the earlier cultures in Namibia such as the
the Hai‖om, for example. Possibly
other cultures in Namibia may have been influenced by the construction of the
Ovambo weapons, so that they adopted this arrow shape for a spear.
for a spear. As the object has no visible book marks on its end
traces at its end, it can be ruled out that it is an arrow
the nock of which has been lost due to age and/or handling.
The collector and the exact circumstances of the acquisition
remain unclear so far (processing status: 2023). Due to the
colonial collection context, the object is still to be categorised as
sensitive.
Allan Chrislyn, Justin Bradfield, & Marlize
Lombard, 2016: The form and function of Ovambo arrows: Exploring
agro-pastoralist hunting technology, Journal of Anthropological
Archaeology 44
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.
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