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Gunpowder Horn on a Waist Band

Data Provider
Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ambo
Object type
Pulverhorn
Material/Technique
Horn, Leather, Iron, Brass, Wood
cut, drilled, sewn, carved, hooked in
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
089838

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Mountain; 1357
  • Production
    when
    around 1914
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Ondonga
Provenance
Berg was a ship's captain and therefore spent most of his time in port areas. It has not yet been possible to verify that he made a trip to "German South-West Africa". Objects from there probably came into his possession through middlemen. Text: Christoph Rippe.

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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