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.
Taille
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.
L’objet Throwing club “kirri” numéro d’objet 3040865, a fait partie de la 84th Tribal Art Auction du 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