tewhatewha

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Weapon

The weapon tewhatewha is an effective striking and thrusting weapon that also served as a status symbol. Text: Ulrich Menter

Data Provider
Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Māori
Object type
Waffe
Dimensions
Length: 148.5 cm
Width: 18.5 cm
Depth: 4.5 cm
Material/Technique
Wood carved
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
117328

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Museum of Ethnology; 2029
  • Production
    when
    19th century
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    New Zealand
Provenance
The object traces back to the collection of the Ethnological Museum Berlin and came to the Linden-Museum in 1939 through an object exchange with Arthur Speyer. The former provenance of the object has not yet been determined. Text: Ulrich Menter

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