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Arrows (5 pieces)
Cultural attribution: in the inv. book "Kaffirs". Addition in pencil in the inv. book: "Herero"
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Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim gGmbH
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Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Hunting or war weapon
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
Inventory number
RPM_V 1171 a.-e.
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Geschenke-Konvolut Höpfners aus dem Jahre 1884
Provenance and sources
when
before 1884
where
Africa, southern Africa, Namibia, according to the report of the Hildesheim Museum Association Angra Pequena (Lüderitzbucht)
who
unbekannt - Former Possessors
Description
Alternative spelling of the name: Carl Hoepfner. Höpfner did not stay exclusively in Angra Pequena on his first journey in 1882/83. He spent the first eight months in Mossamedes (Moçâmedes) on the Atlantic coast of Angola, near the present-day border between Angola and Namibia. He then travelled on to Kunene via the Boer colony of Humpata and "through the land of the Ovambo and Damara" (Globus 44, 1883, p. 254). During this journey he apparently already came into contact with Herero (cf. Globus vol. 44, 1883, p. 383). Therefore, despite the statement in the report of the Hildesheim Museum Association that the ethnographica donated in 1884 were "all from Angra Pequena", he may have already acquired objects from the Damara and Ovambo, but also from Herero, on his journey there.
when
1884
where
Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum
who
Dr. Carl Höpfner
Secondary literature
Bericht "Verein für Kunde der Natur und der Kunst im Fürstenthume Hildesheim und in der Stadt Goslar", Zeitraum 01.01.1883-01.01.1886, Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1886, S. 10, S. 36, dort unter Geschenken 1884: Höpfner, Dr., Afrikareisender, „Bogen und Pfeile mit eisernen Spitzen und Federn, eiserne Armspangen, Lanzenspitze, Dolch, Wurfkeule, Perlenstickereien, ein Gefäß von Holz, Kürbisflasche, Beutel und Tuch von buntem baumwollenen Stoff, sämmtlich von Angra Pequena“.
Bundesarchiv Berlin, R 1001/1470, „Reisebericht von Dr. Höpfner über die Verhältnisse in Südwestafrika“.
Höpfner, Carl, „Die Erfolge der Mission bei den Ovaherero“, in: Globus: Illustrierte Zeitschrift für Länder- und Völkerkunde, Bd. 44, 1883, S. 383.
„Deutsche Kolonial-Unternehmungen in Afrika: Angra Pequena. Dr. Höpfner im Damara-Land. Die Sibango-Farm in Gabun“, in: Globus. Illustrierte Zeitschrift für Länder- und Völkerkunde, Bd. 44, 1883, S. 254.
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