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Combat shield for use in war or for hunting
big game hunting
Object genre
Weapon
Current location
Museum Witzenhausen
Inventory number
3
Condition
good
Provenance and sources
Production
when
later 19th century
where
probably Tanzania, Ruvuma or Iringa
region
who
vermutlich Ngoni oder Hehe
people - Makers
Source(s)
Field research in
Tanzania
Change of physical control: possibly robbery
when
1892-96
where
Southern highlands of Tanzania
who
möglicherweise Wilhelm
Arning (1865 - 1943) - Looters
Description
In the 1890s Arning was a doctor in the
Schutztruppe at various military stations in southern and central
central German East Africa. It is possible that he was the
shields from the Wahehe killed in the battle of Munisagara in 1892
killed in the battle of Munisagara in 1892 and brought them to the nearby military station of
Kilosa (Arning 1893: 59).
Source(s)
W. Arning, Battle against the Wahehe.
Deutsches Kolonialblatt 4, 1893, 58-60. W. Arning, Reise- und
Expedition diaries Cod. Ms. W. Arning 1:2,1-1 Africa 1895/96.
Göttingen: Niedersächsische Staats- und
University Library.
Change of physical control: not clarified
when
1900
where
District Office Kilosa
who
möglicherweise Arnold
Lambrecht - Recipients
Description
Lambrecht was a district officer from 1900-12
in various districts from the east coast to the central coastal
coastal hinterland of DOA. It is possible that he received the shields captured from
Arning in 1892 when he took up his post at Kilosa Station.
station.
Source(s)
W. Arning, Battle against the Wahehe.
Deutsches Kolonialblatt 4, 1893, 58-60, Personal Nachrichten. In:
Amtlicher Anzeiger für Deutsch-Ostafrika. Supplement to the
Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung No. 29, 20 (1900), pp.
1.
Change of physical control: Donation
when
1903
where
Witzenhausen
who
Deutsche Kolonialschule für
Landwirtschaft, Handel und Gewerbe (DKS) – seit
27.11.1956 umfirmiert in "Deutsches Institut für
Tropische und Subtropische Landwirtschaft GmbH" (DITSL)
– Rechtsnachfolgerin der DKS - Recipients
Description
In 1902, the DKS published an appeal to
its leavers and other associated actors to collect cultural and natural
from the German colonies and other overseas territories
and to donate them to the school's teaching collection. After the re-establishment
DITSL took over the collection and has kept it in the museum in Witzenhausen since 1976.
Witzenhausen since 1976. Lambrecht's donation from 1903 is one of the first
of the first recorded additions to the DKS collection following the
collection.
Source(s)
Anonymus (1903): "Museum and Collection"
German Cultural Pioneer 3(3-4), 41.
Cultural attribution
when
2023
where
Ngoni Land, Hehe Land
who
Fokusgruppen und Interviews mit
Wangoni in Songea und Maposeni, mit Wahehe und anderen
Gruppen in Kilosa, Munisagara bei Kilosa, Iringa,
Kilombero-Tal
Description
Provenance research project on the
East Africa holdings of the Museum
Witzenhausen
Source(s)
Archive and literature research in
Germany, field research at identified locations in
Tanzania
Assignment to a curated holding: Arnold collection
Lambrecht/gun collection
where
Witzenhausen
who
Wilhelm
Arning (1865 - 1943) - Looters
Description
It is possible that staff surgeon Wilhelm Arning
may have taken these shields from Wahehe killed in the battle of Munisagara in 1892
killed by him in the battle of Munisagara in 1892 and had them taken to the nearby military station
Kilosa (Arning 1893: 59),
Source(s)
W. Arning, Battle against the Wahehe.
German Colonial Gazette 4, 1893, 58-60.
Secondary literature
Nigmann, Ernst 1908. Die Wahehe: Ihre Geschichte,
Kult-, Rechts-, Kriegs- und Jagd-Gebräuche. Berlin: Ernst Mittler
Verlag.
Provenance
The provenance has not been clearly established.
The shields were labelled as Zulu shields when the museum was established in 1976.
but there is no indication of this provenance in the original entry book.
no indication of this origin. The inventory numbers 1,2,3,6 indicate a very early addition to the collection.
addition to the collection. Lambrecht's donation of 1903 was one of the
first and contained shields. At this time, Lambrecht was the district
of Kilosa, where Arning had been stationed around 10 years earlier and at the end of 1892
shields from Wahehe killed in battle at the nearby village of Munisagara to the station.
Wahehe to the station. Available literature and other cases
of Hehehe shields indicate that Hehehe shields were often larger than the four
than the four specimens in Witzenhausen. In terms of size, they could
Ngoni shields, which the shields were imported from South Africa during the
brought to East Africa from South Africa during the first half of the 19th century
and from which the Hehe adopted the manufacturing technique in the 1870s and 1880s.
manufacturing technique. For further clarification, further field
field surveys involving the objects themselves are
necessary.
Information about the record
Funding
Das Projekt "Provenienzforschung zum Ostafrika-Bestand der
Sammlung des völkerkundlichen Museums Witzenhausen" wurde von August 2022
bis Dezember 2024 durch das Deutsche Zentrum Kulturgutverluste gefördert.
Die Aufbereitung der Ergebnisse zur Präsentation in diesem Portal wurde vom
Museumsverband Hessen (MVH) unterstützt.
