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Gunpowder Horn
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Cultural attribution
San
Object type
Pulverhorn
Dimensions
Length: 19 cm
Material/Technique
Fur, Horn cut, sheathed
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
030968

Provenance and sources

Assignment to a curated holding:
Volkmann; 0555b
Production
when
around 1900
Change of physical control or legal title
where
Namibia
Change of physical control
when
1903
Provenance
Volkmann's four collections came to the Linden Museum between 1903 and 1904. As he himself wrote in his letters to Graf von Linden, he acquired the objects himself in situ shortly before or in 1903 and 1904. The majority of the objects originate from the Kalahari region around Sandvelde and Grootfontein. The objects from the Okavango region probably originate from the territory of present-day Botswana, including the area of "King Andara", to whom Volkmann paid a diplomatic visit in 1903. Volkmann does not describe in detail how he acquired the objects, except by using the commonly used word "collecting". Text: Christoph Rippe.

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