File:Hand Club, New Zealand, Brücke Museum Berlin, 65019, view a.jpg
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Wahaika, Hand Club, Maori region, Aotearoa, New Zealand, around 1900-1970, front view
Summary
Object
| Artist |
English: once known creator
Deutsch: einst bekannte*r Urheber*in |
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| Description |
Deutsch: Wahaika, Handkeule
English: Wahaika, Hand Club |
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| Date | between 1900 and 1970 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | hard wood (Q15814392), jade | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 33.5 cm (13.1 in); width: 13 cm (5.1 in); depth: 3 cm (1.1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
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| Accession number |
H 55 |
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| Place of creation | Māori (Q6122670), Aotearoa (Q153785)/New Zealand (Q664) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
transferred to Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff |
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| Notes |
English: The wahaika were used by the Maori as war weapons in close combat but also as ceremonial objects of high-ranking persons. The typical convex striking edge is complemented above the handle by a carved human figure and a human face on the pommel.
This virtuously crafted piece traces back to the prototypical shape of this weapon. It is believed that such highly decorated wahaika were made for sale. The spiral and intertwined patterns (tauira) are not just decorative but have specific meanings.
Deutsch: Wahaika wurden von den Maori als Kriegswaffe im Nahkampf verwendet aber auch als zeremonielle Objekte hochrangiger Personen. Die typische konvexe Schlagseite wird über dem Handgriff durch eine geschnitzte menschliche Figur und ein menschliches Gesicht am Knauf ergänzt.
Dieses virtuos gearbeitete Stück geht auf die prototypische Form dieser Waffe zurück. Man vermutet, dass solche stark verzierten Wahaika für den Verkauf hergestellt wurden. Die spiralförmigen und ineinander verschränkten Muster (tauira) sind nicht nur Dekoration sondern haben jeweils eine spezifische Bedeutung. |
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| References |
English: Hand Clubs in the Collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/search/Wahaika/results |
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Photograph
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English: Wahaika, Hand Club, Maori region, Aotearoa, New Zealand, around 1900-1970, front view  |
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| Source | BrückeMuseumBerlin | |||
| Author | Nick Ash, Berlin | |||
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| Other versions | Hand Club, New Zealand, Brücke Museum Berlin, 65019, view b.jpg |
The estate of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, owned by the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation at the Brücke Museum, contains his collection of around 100 sculptures and objects with colonial backgrounds. The Brücke artist himself never travelled outside Europe and, to the best of current knowledge, bought these objects in the art trade and from private owners from the 1910s onwards. The collection includes ritual and everyday objects, alongside souvenirs for the Western market. The way they were perceived underwent changes: they came to be seen as objects of art and decoration. Little is known of their origins, the circumstances of their acquisition, or the historical and current importance of the objects. Most of them originate from Germany’s former colonies, thus referring directly to German Expressionists’ entanglements in the often unlawful appropriation of material culture in colonially occupied lands. More
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