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Dagger

Bone-shaped wooden handle wrapped with copper wire sits on a crest-shaped piece of iron, blade spreads fan-shaped up to a height of 4 cm, then tapers to a point, blade-shaped notch, within it arc-shaped and linear notches on both sides of the blade

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Data Provider
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Baboa
Object type
Dolch
Dimensions
L 41.5 cm, including 10 cm handle / max. handle width 4.7 cm, max. blade width 9 cm
Material/Technique
iron (metal), wood (plant material), Copper wire Forged, carved, Metal technology
Object genre
weapon
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2291
Other number(s)
Linden-Museum: 23405 (Old inventory number)
2291 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    when
    before May 1902
    where
    Province Bas-Uélé
    Demokratische Republik Kongo
    Zentralafrika
    Afrika
    who
    uns nicht bekannt - Role not clarified
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    when
    before May 1902
    where
    Demokratische Republik Kongo
    Zentralafrika
    Afrika
    who
    uns nicht bekannt - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    when
    before May 1902
    where
    Berlin
    Deutschland
    who
    Frobenius, Leo - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Purchase
    when
    May 1902
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Description
    Count von Linden presumably bought the property from Frobenius.
  • Change of physical control:
    Donation
    when
    May 1902
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Description
    Count von Linden donated the object to the Linden Museum.
  • Change of physical control:
    Exchange
    when
    15.12.1971
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners

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