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Container for Body and Hair Cosmetic Butter

Decorated with metal and horn beads strung on plant fibre and leather cords. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.

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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Gefäß
Dimensions
Length: 12 cm
Diameter: 8 cm
Material/Technique
Iron, Horn, Leather, Plant fibre cut, braided, sheathed, threaded, bound
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
054068

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Buttlar-Brandenfels; 0822
  • Production
    when
    1904 or earlier
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Namibia
Provenance
In 1907, First Lieutenant Kurt Freiherr Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels donated a collection of 19 objects to the Linden Museum (including a photographic panel). Of the originally received objects, 13 still exist. Between February and April 1904, Buttlar-Brandenfels had taken part in hostilities against Herero troops in central Namibia, near Otjihinamaparero, Omatako, Otjinoanaua, Omaruru and Onganjira. 18 objects from the collection were captured during six different combat operations. According to written information from Buttlar-Brandenfels, the container was found after the battle at Otjihinamaparero (also Otjihaenamaparero) on February 25, 1904 in the house of a "wealthy Herero captain" under the Herero leader Samuel Maharero. Buttlar-Brandenfels said it was unclear whether this object belonged to Michael [Tyiseseta] from Omaruru, or Banjo from Otjombonde. Text: Christoph Rippe.

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