Malangan carving
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Malangan carving
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Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover
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Cultural attribution
Bewohner von Neuirland
Object type
sculpture (visual works)
Dimensions
H: 53 cm; B: 18 cm; T: 7 cm
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Landesmuseum Hannover
Inventory number
LMH_ET 6985 Sammlung von Bennigsen Nr. 17
Related object(s)
is part of :
A. von Bennigsen 1920 (Konvolut)
Provenance and sources
when
before 1901
where
Oceania (Melanesia), Papua New Guinea, New Ireland
Description
Malangan (also Malagan/Malanggan) carvings were made by specialists for mourning ceremonies in honour of one or more deceased persons; after the ceremonies were completed, they no longer had any significance and were left to decay, destroyed or given away; their acquisition therefore appears to be fundamentally unproblematic. One of the carvings from the R. von Bennigsen collection was demonstrably acquired illegally in 1899 as part of a punitive expedition sent by Governor R. von Bennigsen to Cape Panakondo in the Madak region; malangans were captured from a "dance hut", which suggests that the ceremonies had not yet ended. It has not yet been possible to clarify which object was involved.
when
1920
where
Hanover State Museum
who
Alexander von Bennigsen
Description
Exhibition "Heikles Erbe. Colonial traces up to the present day", Landesmuseum Hannover 2016/17
Secondary literature
Quelle: Rudolf von Bennigsen: Bericht der Expedition S.M.S. "Möwe". In: Deutsches Kolonialblatt 10 (1899), S. 697-701 |
Literatur: Alexis von Poser, Bianca Baumann (Hrsg.): Heikles Erbe. Koloniale Spuren bis in die Gegenwart. Eine Ausstellung des Niedersächsischen Landesmuseums Hannover, Dresden 2016; A. von Poser: Malangan-Schnitzereien aus Neuirland. Ist ihr Besitz grundsätzlich unproblematisch? In: Edenheiser, Iris/Förster, Larissa (Hrsg.), Museumsethnologie. Eine Einführung. Theorien, Debatten, Praktiken, Berlin 2019, S. 76-77
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