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Arrows
Skilfully designed and crafted so as to function efficiently under specific conditions and for specific types of prey, in Namibia arrows were also elegantly shaped and decorated so as to provide an aesthetic effect. Thus, they not only performed a specific function, but also expressed both the cosmology and the personality of their owners. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.
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Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Ambo
- Object type
- Pfeil
- Dimensions
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Length: 65 cm
Width: 1.2 cm - Material/Technique
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Wood, Plant fibre, Spring, Iron
Forged, carved, plugged in, wrapped
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 035791
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Production
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when
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around 1900
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Namibia
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Change of physical control
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when
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1904
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- Provenance
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Volkmann's four collections came to the Linden Museum between 1903 and 1904. As he himself wrote in his letters to Graf von Linden, he acquired the objects himself in situ shortly before or in 1903 and 1904. The majority of the objects originate from the Kalahari region around Sandvelde and Grootfontein. The objects from the Okavango region probably originate from the territory of present-day Botswana, including the area of "King Andara", to whom Volkmann paid a diplomatic visit in 1903. Volkmann does not describe in detail how he acquired the objects, except by using the commonly used word "collecting".
Text: Christoph Rippe.
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- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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