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Dining bowl

Data Provider
Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Nubier
Object type
Utility item
Dimensions
D: 31.5 cm, H: 14 cm
Material/Technique
Wood
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Landesmuseum Hannover
Inventory number
LMH_ET 1346
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1881
  • Change of legal title:
    Unknown type of acquisition
    where
    Africa, North-East Africa, Sudan
    who
    Carl Reiche - Former Possessors
    Description
    Sudan was part of the established trading network of the animal trading company C. Reiche, Alfeld (also: Charles Reiche & Brother, New York). The company organised regular expeditions there and also brought people and objects to Europe in this way. The object mentioned above is most probably connected with "Reiche's Caravan from Nubia", 1878.
  • Change of legal title:
    Purchase
    when
    1881
    where
    Hanover State Museum
    who
    Tierhändler Carl Reiche, Alfeld
  • Exhibition
    Description
    Objects were used in the context of the Alfeld animal trade and most probably in the show "Reiche's Caravan from Nubia", 1878, Hanover Zoological Gardens. See brochure "Reiche's Caravan to Nubia", Alfeld n.d. They may already have been used/shown at a hippopotamus show a few years earlier. See brochure "Hippos from Africa", Alfeld n.d., both from the Alfeld town archives.
Secondary literature
Andratschke, Claudia/ Müller, Lars: "Menschen, Thiere und leblose Gegenstände". Die Alfelder Tierhändler Reiche und Ruhe als Ausstatter von Völkerschauen, in: Lars Frühsorge, Sonja Riehn, Michael Schütte (Hg.): Völkerschau-Objekte. Lübeck 2021, 131-143

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