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Kettle drum <musical instrument>

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Wanjamwezi
Object type
Kettledrum
Dimensions
Height: 710.0 mm
Diameter: 660.0 mm
Material/Technique
Leather, Fur, Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
I/0118
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1850 - 1909
  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    08.02.1910
    who
    Winterer, Otto - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Tanzania (location/origin)
    Africa (location/origin)
    who
    Winterer, Wilhelm - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa
Provenance
Donated by the former mayor Otto Winterer (1846-1915), 8 February 1910 His son Wilhelm Winterer (1879-1969) acquired the drum from the Nyamwezi ethnic group in Kifum-biro in the Bukoba district on Lake Victoria in Tanzania. He was stationed there from 1907 to 1913 during the German colonial period as a lieutenant colonel in the Schutztruppe for East Africa. The exact circumstances of his acquisition are not known.

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