Transverse trumpet
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Transverse trumpet
Description on old index card: "Small reddish-brown ivory horn, ending in a figurine that rests the chin on the hands" In addition to the Bangwa, this type of transverse trumpet was also used by groups from the Cameroon forest region, such as the Bakundu, Bago, Balong and others. Such musical instruments were used by the Musongo secret society (E. Haase 2013). Richard Tsogang Fossi said in 2020 that they were blown at the arrival of a chief or to warn of danger. The spelling of the cultural attribution varies in the sources; on the old index cards in the museum, the term "Bangua" is predominantly used.
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Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
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Cultural attribution
Bangwa
Object type
Transverse trumpet
Dimensions
L: 27 cm
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
Inventory number
SMBS_1709-0180-00 Vw 1.1-75/1; A III c 416
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.
when
1902
where
Braunschweig Municipal Museum
who
Kurt Strümpell
Secondary literature
D. Hecht, „Katalog der afrikanischen Sammlung im Städtischen Museum Braunschweig. Braunschweiger Werkstücke ; 37“. Waisenhaus-Buchdr. und Verl., Braunschweig, 1968.
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