patu pounamu / mere | Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
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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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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Cultural attribution
Māori
Object type
Hieb- und Stoßwaffe
Dimensions
Length: 47 cm
Width: 10.9 cm
Depth: 2 cm
Width: 10.9 cm
Depth: 2 cm
Material/Technique
Nephrite
carved
carved
Current location
Linden-Museum
Stuttgart
Inventory number
033598
Provenance and sources
Provenance
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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