File:Top of a Drinking Horn, Cameroon, Brücke-Museum Berlin, 65014, view b.jpg
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Top of a Drinking Horn, Cameroon, 19th–20th century, three-quarter view from the right
Summary
Object
| Artist |
English: once known creator
Deutsch: einst bekannte*r Urheber*in |
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| Description |
English: Top of a Drinking Horn
Deutsch: Aufsatz eines Trinkhorns |
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| Date | from 19th century until 20th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | glass pearls, wood, cloth, fiber | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 13.5 cm (5.3 in); width: 7.5 cm (2.9 in); depth: 11 cm (4.3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
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| Accession number |
H 50 |
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| Place of creation | Western High Plateau (Q1627312) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
transferred to Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff |
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| Notes |
English: This beaded top originally adorned the lower tip of a drinking vessel made of buffalo horn. Such drinking vessels belonged to the personal property of heads of families. They were used in ceremonies dedicated to the welfare of the family or the king. The face shows a man with a crescent-shaped mpelet headdress, which was reserved for important notables of the court.
Deutsch: Dieser mit Perlen geschmückte Aufsatz zierte ursprünglich die untere Spitze eines Trinkgefäßes aus Büffelhorn. Solche Trinkgefäße gehörten zum persönlichen Besitz von Familien-Oberhäuptern. Sie wurden bei Zeremonien genutzt, die dem Wohlergehen der Familie oder des Königs gewidmet waren. Das Gesicht zeigt einen Mann mit halbmondförmigen mpelet-Kopfschmuck, der wichtigen Notablen des Hofes vorbehalten war. |
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| References |
English: Ceremonial Drinking Horn in the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/312206 |
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Photograph
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English: Top of a Drinking Horn, Cameroon, 19th–20th century, three-quarter view from the right  |
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| Source | BrückeMuseumBerlin | |||
| Author | Nick Ash, Berlin | |||
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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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