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Splendour axe
The following was noted in the museum's main catalogue when this object was received: "axe as a badge of chieftainship of the Choks[?] Tembo Aluma Kwango. 32 cm long". Pruning axe of the Holo chief Tembo Aluma
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Tschokwe (Chokwe)
Object type
Splendour axe
Dimensions
Height: 34,5 cm
Width: 27 cm
Depth: 4 cm
Weight: 0,4 kg
Width: 27 cm
Depth: 4 cm
Weight: 0,4 kg
Material/Technique
Iron, Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 1604
Provenance and sources
when
19th century
where
Angola [Land]
Kuango (Kwango) [Fluss]
Malanje [Region]
Tembo Aluma [Ort]
who
Tschokwe (Chokwe)
who
Alexander von Mechow (de.fiz.ddb.model.ddbobject.WhenType$Begin@20a34fb3 - de.fiz.ddb.model.ddbobject.WhenType$End@6a0e18d1) - Collectors
Description
Purchase 1882
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