Throwing club "kirri" · Namibia, Ovambo · ID: 3040865
sold
EUR 400
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.
Size
L: 45,5 cm
L: 17.9 inch
Description
wood, reddish brown patina, black pigment, shaft round in cross-section, fist-sized club head coated with grooves, slightly dam., abrasion of paint;
used as a weapon primarily against animals but against humans as well.
The object Throwing club “kirri” with the object ID 3040865 was part of the auction 84th Tribal Art Auction on November 5, 2016. The object with the lot number 515 achieved a sales price of EUR 400 with an asking price of EUR 150.
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Comparing literature
Szalay, Miklós, Die ethnographische Südwestafrika-Sammlung Hans Schinz 1884-1886, Zürich 1979, p. 63