Four daggers with sheath
Namibia, Ovambo
sold
EUR 600
Provenance
Reinhold Kloppe, Windhoek, Namibia / Swinemünde-Harzgerode, GermanyGerda Wilhelmine Emilie Kloppe, (1919 Windhoek, Namibia - 1994 Swinemünde-Harzgerode, Germany)
Reinhold Kloppe (born 1882 in Harzgerode) was a government official in Brakwater, a district Windhoek. Exactly when the family returned to Germany and if it was by the end of German colonial rule or later, is not documented. We only have a certified translation of the birth certificate from 1942 of his daughter Gerda Wilhelmine Emilie Kloppe, who was born in 1919 in Windhoek, during the time that German Southwest was under a South African mandate. When the family returned to Germany, they brought presents from the Nama and Ovambo in their luggage with them.
Description
two daggers, in wooden sheath with cutout, ridge backside with drilled hole for attachment, handle and sheath of one of the daggers strongly dam., cracks, l: 44,5/46 cm; dagger, wooden sheath with wing-like projecting tip (broken on one side), cracks, l: 29,5 cm; small dagger, reddish and blackish brown handle and sheath, rep. (breakages at handle and wing-like projecting tip of sheath), crack, l: 16,5 cm