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Powder horns with bullet pocket

The object consists of four powder horns covered with fur and one with a leather ball pouch with fur, which are joined together. Received from the Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, from the "shipment of the Cameroon expedition (Dr Zintgraff)". In the catalogue there, the object is traced as "Powder horns with ball pouch Ekoa" and the provenance is given as "Banyang (Batom, Mabum)".

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
keine Zuschreibung
Object type
Powder horns with bullet pocket
Other title
Ekoa
Dimensions
H: 16 cm; B: 30 cm
Material/Technique
Leather/fur/pumpkin
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg
Inventory number
LMNM_1455
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1890
  • Change of physical control:
    Unknown type of acquisition
    where
    Africa, Cameroon, Banyang
    who
    Zintgraff, Eugen - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control:
    Donation
    when
    1890
    where
    State Museum of Nature and Man Oldenburg
    who
    Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin (heute Ethnologisches Museum Berlin)

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