Throwing club "kirri" · Namibie, Ovambo · ID: 3040865
Vendu
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.
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.
L’objet Throwing club “kirri” avec l’ID d’objet 3040865 a fait partie de la vente aux enchères 84th Tribal Art Auction dans 5 novembre 2016. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 515 a atteint un prix de vente de 400 € pour un prix d’adjudication de 150 €.
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Littérature comparée
Szalay, Miklós, Die ethnographische Südwestafrika-Sammlung Hans Schinz 1884-1886, Zürich 1979, p. 63