Production
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when
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before 1901
Rights management: Landesmuseum Hannover
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Malangan carving
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Bewohner von Neuirland
- Object type
- sculpture (visual works)
- Dimensions
- H: 43 cm; W: 18 cm; D: 9 cm
- Material/Technique
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Wood (indeterminate)/dye (vegetable)/snail shell (Turbinella), operculum (operculum)
- Object genre
- Ethnographica
- Current location
- Landesmuseum Hannover
- Inventory number
- LMH_ET 6983
- Other number(s)
- Sammlung von Bennigsen 15 (Old inventory number)
- Related object(s)
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of legal title:
Unknown type of acquisition-
where
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Oceania (Melanesia), Papua New Guinea, New Ireland
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Description
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Malangan (also Malagan/Malanggan) carvings were made by specialists for mourning ceremonies in honour of one or more deceased persons; after the ceremonies were completed, they no longer had any significance and were left to decay, destroyed or given away; their acquisition therefore appears to be fundamentally unproblematic. One of the carvings from the R. von Bennigsen collection was demonstrably acquired illegally in 1899 as part of a punitive expedition sent by Governor R. von Bennigsen to Cape Panakondo in the Madak region; malangans were captured from a "dance hut", which suggests that the ceremonies had not yet ended. It has not yet been possible to clarify which object was involved.
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Change of legal title:
Donation-
when
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1920
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where
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Hanover State Museum
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who
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Alexander von Bennigsen
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Exhibition
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Description
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Exhibition "Heikles Erbe. Colonial traces up to the present day", Landesmuseum Hannover 2016/17
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- Secondary literature
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Quelle: Rudolf von Bennigsen: Bericht der Expedition S.M.S. "Möwe". In: Deutsches Kolonialblatt 10 (1899), S. 697-701 | Literatur: Alexis von Poser, Bianca Baumann (Hrsg.): Heikles Erbe. Koloniale Spuren bis in die Gegenwart. Eine Ausstellung des Niedersächsischen Landesmuseums Hannover, Dresden 2016; A. von Poser: Malangan-Schnitzereien aus Neuirland. Ist ihr Besitz grundsätzlich unproblematisch? In: Edenheiser, Iris/Förster, Larissa (Hrsg.), Museumsethnologie. Eine Einführung. Theorien, Debatten, Praktiken, Berlin 2019, S. 76-77
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- CC0 1.0 DEED
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