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Pruning axe
Main catalogue: "Battle axe of the elder son of the chieftain Zappu Zapp, handle completely covered with copper, blade open-worked, decorated with 6 human heads. As a reward for their deeds of war, the Bassonge princes were to authorise their warriors to have axes or knives with such heads made."
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Songye (Basonge)
Object type
Pruning axe
Dimensions
Width: 26 cm
Weight: 1,02 kg
Width: 22 cm
Depth: 5,5 cm
Height: 39,5 cm
Width: 27,5 cm
Depth: 2,5 cm
Depth: 42 cm
Weight: 1,02 kg
Width: 22 cm
Depth: 5,5 cm
Height: 39,5 cm
Width: 27,5 cm
Depth: 2,5 cm
Depth: 42 cm
Material/Technique
Iron, Copper, Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 11691
Provenance and sources
who
Songye (Basonge)
who
Anonym - Former Possessors
Description
Purchase from Anonymous 1900
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