Wooden spoon

Sammlung Braun

r 2018 / 18220

General information

Providing institution

Museen Stade

Collection area

Sammlung Braun

Inventory number

r 2018 / 18220

Title

Wooden spoon

Dimensions

length: 24cm

Material

wood

Citation link

https://www.amani-stade.gbv.de/item/en_ms_0bd335c1-a1ae-4c0f-8605-f4b3e9479106

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Individual object / object group

Individual object

Classification

housekeeping

Provenance events

Production

Time

to ca. 1905-12-24

Person

Person (Manufacturer)

Place

Tansania

Purchase / Sale

Time

1905-12-24

Description

"Sunday, 24 December 1905 [underlined, p. 60] [p. 61] [...] In the evening, the [...] [?] which have ethnographic value, left. These had almost all been procured for me by Max. [...] Small and larger carved round spoons with burnt-in drawings, shallowly recessed, the figures alternating. [Drawings of seven spoons a-g, some detail drawing for pattern with inscription] kiswahili: kijiko / mwiko / wu bu [?] / one deep spoon: [drawing h] [...]" [translation]

source: Museum der Kulturen Basel, VI 56197, 46 (62)
author: Karl Braun

Person

unknown actor (Buyer)

Place

Amani

Inventory

Time

to 1905-12-24

Description

"45. the same as 43 [drawing]" [Entry 43] "Wooden spoon, Kijiko / Amani 24 Dec 1905 / TB 46.62 / [drawing]" [translation]

source: Museen Stade, r 2018 / 18566 (45/43)
author: Karl Braun

Person

Braun, Karl (* 1870 † 1935) (Inventor)
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Old inventory numbers

045

Inheritance

Time

1934-07-17

Description

In 1934, the former director of the Biological Imperial Institute for Agriculture and Forestry (Biologische Reichsanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft) Karl Braun (1870–1935) gave the so-called “Kolonialsammlung Braun” (Colonial Collection Braun) to the Hanseatic City of Stade, or rather its representative, the then mayor Hans Arthur Meyer (1884–1961). See the file „Transfer of a colonial collection from the senior government councillor Professor Dr. Karl Braun in Stade to the City of Stade” („Überlassung einer Kolonialsammlung vom Oberregierungsrat Professor Dr. Karl Braun in Stade an die Stadt Stade") at the Lower Saxony State Archives Stade (Niedersächsischen Landesarchiv Standort Stade).

source: Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Standort Stade, Dep. 10 Nr. 03025

Person

Braun, Karl (* 1870 † 1935) (Donor)
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Hansestadt Stade (Recipient)
Hans Arthur Meyer (1884 - 1961) (Recipient)

Place

Stade

Loan

Time

1997-02-17

Description

In 1997, the then city archivist Jürgen Bohmbach concludes a permanent loan agreement with the Museum Society Stade (Museumsverein Stade e.V.), for which the then director Gerd Mettjes signs. Thereafter, the collection from Karl Braun is transferred to the care of the Museum Society Stade (Museumsverein Stade e.V.).

source: Museen Stade, Vereinbarung Leihgabe "Brauns'sche Kolonialsammlung"

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