Production
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when
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before 1902
Rights management: Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
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Elephant mask
Mask of the Elephant League "aka". The mask wearer also wore a long, wide robe. Red, black and dark blue fabric, lined with light-coloured fibre fabric. Colours of the beads: white, yellow, blue, turquoise and green. The ears are designed differently, without beads on the back. The bead ornaments on the front and back of the "trunk" are different. A textile ring is sewn onto the back of the headpiece. The spelling of the cultural attribution varies in the sources; on the old index cards in the museum, the term "Bangua" is predominantly used.
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Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Bangwa
- Object type
- Elephant mask
- Dimensions
- W: 67 cm; L: 92 cm
- Labeling
- Object genre
- Ethnographica
- Current location
- Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
- Inventory number
- SMBS_1709-0007-00
- Other number(s)
- A III c 438; Vw 1.4-44/1 (Old inventory number)
- Related object(s)
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of physical control:
Unknown type of acquisition-
where
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Africa, Cameroon, Southwest Cameroon
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Description
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Military interventions against the "Bangwa" took place in the collection period between 1901-1902, in which Strümpell was involved as a lieutenant or first lieutenant of the German Schutztruppe. The structural connection between military penetration and collecting points to a context of violence in which Strümpell acquired the "Bangwa" collection.
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Change of physical control:
Donation-
when
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1902
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where
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Braunschweig Municipal Museum
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who
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Kurt Strümpell
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- Secondary literature
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B. von Lintig, „Die bildende Kunst der Bangwa : Werkstatt-Traditionen und Künstlerhandschriften“. Akad. Verl., München, 1994.; D. Hecht, „Katalog der afrikanischen Sammlung im Städtischen Museum Braunschweig. Braunschweiger Werkstücke ; 37“. Waisenhaus-Buchdr. und Verl., Braunschweig, 1968.
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- Legal status metadata
- CC0 1.0 DEED
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