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"Bushman's Revolver": Miniature Quiver, Bow, and Arrows
European colonial settlers in Namibia named similar artefacts “Buschmannrevolver” ('bushman revolver') and suspected that they could be intended as concealed weapons. Some researchers believe that they might instead have been used as healing devices that could also induce illness. Others argue that they were intended as "love charms". Other studies inquire into the possibility that their production was one of the many examples of creativity responding to the specific demand of a European clientèle looking for easily transportable "souvenirs" from Namibia that would impress their peers in Europe. The different interpretations of the meaning and function of these beautifully and skilfully crafted miniatures point to the high price that we pay today in terms of (lack of) knowledge, due to the inability to "listen" to colonial collecting practices. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.
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Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- San
- Object type
- Revolver
- Dimensions
- Length: 9.5 cm
- Material/Technique
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Leather, Glass
, Pipe, Tendon
cut, threaded, sewn, wrapped
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 110294
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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around 1923
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Namibia
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Change of physical control
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when
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1923
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- Provenance
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The collection came into the museum on loan in 1923, and shortly before his death in 1932, Maag donated the collection to the museum. According to the information in the new acquisitions book, Maag "collected [all objects] himself in situ".
Text: Christoph Rippe.
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- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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