Kamm
- Tansania [Land]; [historische Angabe (Hauptkatalog)] Wawemba [Ethnie]; [historische Angabe (Hauptkatalog)] Muliro; Sambia (Zambia) [Land/Region]
- Hans Glauning (Collector)
The british-austrian ethnologist Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf bought the skulls of former residents of the village of Saochu in another village and affixed them to posts in order to photograph them.
Interest in a foreign culture on the grounds that it is completely different and “exotic” sometimes almost goes against our moral sense. The image of a decorated skull swinging in the air would certainly have caught the interest of the foreign photographer and visitors to the village because it would have been so otherworldly and unimaginable within their own “civilised” thinking. Such a custom would have seemed to be barbaric and rooted in a world filled with superstitious beliefs and worship, in other words an unscientific world. COMMENT BY ZUBENI LOTHA, CO-CURATOR OF THE EXHIBITION AND ARTIST FROM NAGALAND