patu pounamu / mere | Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
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patu pounamu / mere
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Slash and thrust weapon
The mere or patu, made of different materials, were regarded by Māori as important status symbols and were also effective weapons. Used as cutting and thrusting weapons against head and body, they could inflict dangerous wounds on the opponent with their sharp edges. Text: Ulrich Menter
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Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Māori
- Object type
- Hieb- und Stoßwaffe
- Dimensions
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Length: 47 cm
Width: 10.9 cm
Depth: 2 cm - Material/Technique
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Nephrite
carved
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 033598
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Production
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when
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19th century
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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New Zealand
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Change of physical control
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when
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1903
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- Provenance
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The Leipzig
publisher Hermann Meyer (1871-1932) donated this weapon to the Linden
Museum in 1903. As part of this donation, a total of four further
objects from Aotearoa/New Zealand were donated to the museum, along with
other ethnographic objects. Part of the donation was also a life-size
"figure of a New Zealander" acquired from the company "J. F. G. Umlauff,
Naturalienhandlung und Museum" in Hamburg, which no longer exists today.
It can be assumed that H. Meyer also acquired the five objects from
Aotearoa/New Zealand from Umlauff in Hamburg. Text: Ulrich
Menter
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- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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