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when
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around 1896
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Quiver with arrows
Transcription of a letter from Felix von Luschan (Royal Museum of Ethnology) to Achilles Andreae (Director of the Roemer Museum), 9 March 1900: "From the estate of the late Lieutenant von Massow and as a gift from his mother, Mrs von Kuylenstjerna, I am simultaneously sending a postal package containing 4 bows and 6 quivers with poisoned arrows from Togo. I am unable to give any precise details of their origin, but there is no doubt that they either came from the Kabure and Bassari themselves or from their immediate neighbours. In any case, the bows and arrows are of a kind that have probably never before been represented in any European collection. Please send a letter of thanks to Mrs von Kuylenstjerna, Steinhöfel near Fürstenwalde, for this, as I assume you would like to receive it." (Hildesheim city archives, file 741, no. 242)
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Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Bassari/Kabiyé
- Object type
- weapons
- Dimensions
- L approx. 50 cm
- Material/Technique
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Fur/wood/metal (iron)/feathers/sinew (animal)
- Object genre
- Ethnographica
- Current location
- Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
- Inventory number
- RPM_V 1874 a.-af.
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Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of legal title:
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where
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Africa, West Africa, Togo, Kabure or Bassari
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who
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Valentin von Massow, Adelheid Marianne von Kuylenstjerna verwitwete von Massow (Mutter) - Former Possessors
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Description
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If the weapons came from the Kabiye, the warlike conflicts in which von Massow was involved in northern Togo in 1896 give rise to the assumption that they could be "spoils of war". Cf. Lang/Nicklisch: Tracking down the collectors, 2020.
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Change of legal title:
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when
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1900
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where
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Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim
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who
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Adelheid Marianne von Kuylenstjerna verwitwete von Massow, durch Vermittlung des Königlichen Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin (Felix von Luschan)
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- Secondary literature
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Lang, Sabine und Andrea Nicklisch: Den Sammlern auf der Spur. Provenienzforschung zu kolonialen Kontexten am Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim 2017/18. Mit einem Beitrag von Tristan Oestermann. Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, arthistoricum.net, 2021, S. 132-139
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