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Javelin

Description on old index card like A III 367 f: "Wooden shaft with lancet-shaped iron point and humped socket". The spelling of the cultural attribution varies in the sources; on the old index cards in the museum Museum, the term "Bangua" is predominantly used.

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Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
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Cultural attribution
Bangwa
Object type
Javelin
Dimensions
L: 27 cm
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
Inventory number
SMBS_1709-0155-00 A III c 367 g
Related object(s)
is part of : 1. Konvolut Strümpell (Konvolut)

Provenance and sources

when
before 1902

where
Africa, Cameroon, Southwest Cameroon
Description
In the collection period between 1901-1902, military interventions against the "Bangwa" took place, in which which Strümpell was involved as a lieutenant or first lieutenant in the German Schutztruppe was involved. The structural connection between between military penetration and the collection points to a context of violence in which Strümpell acquired the "Bangwa" collection. acquired.

when
1902
where
Braunschweig Municipal Museum
who
Kurt Strümpell

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