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Dance spear

Description on old index card: "Dancing spear, wooden shaft, iron tip with 2 sockets for rattling"Pencil note on the edge: "Same as sacred spear from Bali, Hutter fig. 102". The spelling of the cultural attribution varies in the sources; on the old index cards in the museum the designation "Bangua" is predominantly used.

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Bangwa
Object type
Dance spear
Dimensions
L: 27 cm
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
Inventory number
SMBS_1709-0157-00
Other number(s)
A III c 367 i (Old inventory number)
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1902
  • Change of physical control:
    Unknown type of acquisition
    where
    Africa, Cameroon, Southwest Cameroon
    Description
    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.
  • Change of physical control:
    Donation
    when
    1902
    where
    Braunschweig Municipal Museum
    who
    Kurt Strümpell

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