Quiver with arrows
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Quiver with arrows
Transcription of a letter from Felix von Luschan (Kgl. Museum für Völkerkunde) to Achilles Andreae (Director of the Roemer Museum), 9 March 1900: "From the estate of the late Oberleutnant von Massow and as a gift from his mother, Mrs von Kuylenstjerna, I am simultaneously sending a postal parcel containing 4 bows and 6 quivers of 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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Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim gGmbH
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Cataloguing data
Cultural attribution
Bassari/Kabiyé
Object type
weapons
Dimensions
L ca. 50 cm
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
Inventory number
RPM_V 1874 a.-af.
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Anzahl Objekte aus Sammlung von Massow, erhalten 1900 von Frau von Kuylenstjerna durch Vermittlung des Königlichen Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin
Provenance and sources
when
around 1896
where
Africa, West Africa, Togo, Kabure or Bassari
who
Valentin von Massow, Adelheid Marianne von Kuylenstjerna verwitwete von Massow (Mutter) - Former Possessors
Description
If the weapons came from the Kabiye, the warlike conflicts in which von Massow was involved in northern Togo in 1896 suggest that they could have been "spoils of war". Cf. Lang/Nicklisch: Tracking down the collectors, 2020.
when
1900
where
Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim
who
Adelheid Marianne von Kuylenstjerna verwitwete von Massow, durch Vermittlung des Königlichen Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin (Felix von Luschan)
Secondary literature
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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