kotiate parāoa | Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
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Slash and thrust weapon
The handle end of this short whale bone club is decorated with a fine abstract carving. Short clubs were both effective weapons and important status symbols of high-ranking men. Text: Ulrich Menter
- Data Provider
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Māori
- Object type
- Hieb- und Stoßwaffe
- Dimensions
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Length: 33.9 cm
Width: 13 cm
Depth: 2.5 cm - Material/Technique
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Sperm whale bone, Leather [strap], Paper
carved
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 117327
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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19th century or earlier
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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New Zealand
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Change of physical control
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when
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1939
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- Provenance
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The object
traces back to the collection of the Ethnological Museum Berlin and came
to the Linden-Museum Stuttgart in 1939 through an object exchange with
Arthur Speyer. The earlier history of the object is not yet known for
certain. Text: Ulrich Menter
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- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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