Production
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when
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before 1902
Rights management: Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
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Sword with scabbard
Description on old index card (Richard Andree): "Wide cowhide scabbard with 2 handles covered with red cloth, round rod covered with glass beads as a finial." There is no longer any red cloth on the handles today, they are wrapped with wickerwork that has a reddish tone. Half of the beads in various shades of blue at the lower end are missing. Paule Chl. Dassi (19.09.2019) described the sword as an object of prestige and a symbolic weapon of war, which was worn by a king or title holders, such as notables, at great ceremonies during dances. They are still used in a similar form today at ceremonial dances in the "Grasslands"region. She cited the war dance mieudjon (also mandjon) as an example. The spelling of the cultural attribution varies in the sources; on the old index cards in the museum, the term "Bangua" is predominantly used.
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Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Bangwa
- Object type
- Sword with scabbard
- Dimensions
- L: 27 cm
- Object genre
- Ethnographica
- Current location
- Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
- Inventory number
- SMBS_1709-0131-01/02
- Other number(s)
- Vw 1.0-52/32 b; A III c 373 (Old inventory number)
- Related object(s)
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of physical control:
Unknown type of acquisition-
where
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Africa, Cameroon, South West Region, Lebang (Fontem)
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Description
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Military interventions against the "Bangwa" took place in the collection period between 1901-1902, in which Strümpell was involved as a lieutenant or first lieutenant of the German Schutztruppe. The structural connection between military penetration and collecting points to a context of violence in which Strümpell acquired the "Bangwa" collection. On the old index card, the sword is assigned to the then chief of Fontem as the previous owner.
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Change of physical control:
Donation-
when
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1902
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where
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Braunschweig Municipal Museum
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who
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Kurt Strümpell
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- Secondary literature
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D. Hecht, „Katalog der afrikanischen Sammlung im Städtischen Museum Braunschweig. Braunschweiger Werkstücke ; 37“. Waisenhaus-Buchdr. und Verl., Braunschweig, 1968.; Literatur in Zusammenhang: „A - G. Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon ; Bd. 1“. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig, 1920.
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- CC0 1.0 DEED
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