Production
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19th century
taiaha | Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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taiaha
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Weapon
This two-handed weapon is called taiaha and was used in combat by high-ranking people. Both ends can be deployed as a weapon for stabbing, hitting or repelling an adversary. The decorated part shows a head the outstretched tongue of which forming the blade of the weapon. The band of feathers and dog hair under the carved face is called tauri kura.
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- Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Maori
- Object type
- Waffe
- Dimensions
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Width: 70.0 mm
Length: 1680.0 mm - Material/Technique
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Spring, Haliotis, Wood
- Current location
- Museum Natur und Mensch
- Inventory number
- II/2075
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of legal title:
Purchase-
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17.12.1963
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Oceania (location/origin)Polynesia (location/origin)New Zealand (location/origin)
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Oceania
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- Legal status metadata
- CC0 1.0 DEED
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