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Splendid hatchet
Data Provider
Ethnologische Sammlung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Cataloguing data
Cultural attribution
keine Zuschreibung
Object type
Weapon
Dimensions
L: 45 cm (Stiel); L: 42 cm
(Klinge)
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Ethnologische Sammlung der
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Inventory number
ESG_Af 2043 Berliner Inv. Nr.: III E 2126
(Akte Nr. 878/87)
Related object(s)
is part of :
Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin 1939
(Konvolut)
Provenance and sources
when
before 1887
where
Africa, Southern Africa, Zambezi,
Namibia
who
Museum für Völkerkunde
Berlin - Former Possessors
Description
on the old index card except
"Zambesi" (river) no attribution, in the old inventory catalogue
"Shona ?" (ethnic group) and "Zimbabwe?"
when
1939
where
Ethnological Collection of the Georg-August-University
Göttingen
who
Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin
(heute Ethnologisches Museum Berlin)
Secondary literature
C. G. Widstrand, African axes. Studia Ethnographica
Upsaliensia 15, Uppsala, 1958 (vgl. Abb. 179 (Cewa)); F. Ratzel,
Völkerkunde, Bd. 2, Leipzig [u.a.], 1895, Abb. 4 (Sambesi); M. A.
Zirngibl, Seltene afrikanische Kurzwaffen = Rare African short
weapons = Rares armes courtes africaines. Rare African short
weapons, Grafenau, 1983.
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