Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0 InternationalArrows
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.
- Data Provider
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- !Kung-San
- Object type
- Pfeil
- Dimensions
- Length: 61.5 cm
- Material/Technique
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Pipe, Tendon, Leg
carved, plugged in, wrapped
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 037197
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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Albert Hoffa was himself born in Richmond (South Africa). Even after moving to Germany, he maintained contact with his family in South Africa, including his sister Harriet. The objects from "German South-West Africa" may have been acquired in part through these contacts, but most were probably acquired through his friend Dr. Anton Lübbert (as in the case of Hoffa's brother-in-law Ferdinand Bang). Lübbert also procured the four "Benin bronzes" contained in the collection from the previous owner Adolph Heemke from Geestemünde. Heemke himself was a merchant in West Africa.
Text: Christoph Rippe.
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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