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Woodcarving Ax

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

Cataloguing data

Object type
Beil
Dimensions
Length: 40.4 cm
Width: 21.3 cm
Material/Technique
Iron, Brass, Wood
Forged, carved, scribed, plugged in, nailed
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
088394

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Shepherd; 1330
  • Production
    when
    around 1913
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Namibia
    Angola
Provenance
This object was purchased, among many others, by the Naturalienkabinett Stuttgart in 1913. According to the documentation, the objects were "collected" by the brother of the object donor, H. Schäfer, during an expedition with Max Esser in 1896 along the Kunene River. It is unclear on which side of the river this happened and so it is also unclear whether the objects originate from today's Angola or today's Namibia. Text: Christoph Rippe.

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Legal status metadata
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