Human-animal figure with medicine container
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Human-animal figure with medicine container
Human figure with animal ears and bird's beak. The eyes are filled with resin, one eye is damaged. The other eye is painted white (later?). There is a square medicine container on the back. Opening in the crown of the head. The figure may have been used by healers or fortune-tellers for "remote healing". The spelling of the cultural attribution varies in the sources; on the old index cards in the museum, the designation "Bangua" is predominantly used.
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Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
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Cultural attribution
Bangwa
Object type
Human-animal figure with medicine container mu po
Other title
mu po
Dimensions
H: 10,5 cm
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
Inventory number
SMBS_1709-0015-00 A III c 408; Vw 3.8-61/4
Related object(s)
is part of :
1. Konvolut Strümpell (Konvolut)
Provenance and sources
when
before 1902
where
Africa, Cameroon, Southwest Cameroon
Description
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.
when
1902
where
Braunschweig Municipal Museum
who
Kurt Strümpell
Secondary literature
D. Hecht, „Katalog der afrikanischen Sammlung im Städtischen Museum Braunschweig. Braunschweiger Werkstücke ; 37“. Waisenhaus-Buchdr. und Verl., Braunschweig, 1968.
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