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B21 :: krigsbyte

Object description

Föremålen i den här montern, insamlade under 1800-talets andra hälft, är exempel på samlingar som togs i samband med krig. Henric Ankarcrona (1831-1917) tog som ung officer värvning i den franska armén och var med i de koloniala fälttågen i Nordafrika 1859-60.

Några av slagen skildrade Ankarcrona senare i teckningar och oljemålningar, som nu finns på Nationalmuseum i Stockholm. Det var efter striderna söder om staden Ghazaouet i Algeriet som Ankarcrona tog sitt krigsbyte från kabyler och araber i området.

De svenska affärsmännen Knut Knutson och Georg Waldau var från 1883 och många år framåt i Kamerun, där de bedrev handel och reste runt i området. Tyskland ockuperade territoriet 1884 och skötte sin koloni på ett brutalt och exploaterande sätt.

Svenskarna och andra småskaliga handlare deltog och befann sig mitt i de många konflikter mellan inhemska politiska enheter och tyskarnas koloniala administration. Enligt Knutson tog han träskulpturen under en strid med bomboko-folket i februari 1889.

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B21

Magasinet - id

B21

Titel

krigsbyte

Titel, engelska

War Booty

Beskrivning

Beskrivning - engelska

The items in this display, collected during the second half of the 19th century, are examples of collections that were made in connection with war. Henric Ankarcrona (1831-1917) enlisted as a young officer in the French army and took part in the colonial campaigns in North Africa in 1859-60.

Some of the battles were later depicted by Ankarcrona in drawings and oil paintings, which are now at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. It was after the fighting south of the city of Ghazaouet in Algeria that Ankarcrona took his war booty from Kabyle and Arabs in the area.

The Swedish businessmen Knut Knutson and Georg Waldau were in Cameroon from 1883 onwards where they traded and travelled around the area. Germany occupied the territory in 1884 and ran the colony in a brutal and exploitative way.

Swedes and other small-scale traders participated in, and were caught up in, the many conflicts between indigenous political entities and the German colonial administration. According to Knutson, he took his wooden sculpture during a battle with Bomboko people in February 1889.

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Magasinet - B, Inköpt, utgrävt, beslagtaget

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