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Yvain
27th November 2020, 11:45 AM
Hi all !
Has there ever been an attempt on this forum to compile every online museum collections containing vast or important ethnographic weapon collections ?
I personally use them a lot in my researches, and I think they are an extremely useful tool in our field.
However, I feel like they are underexploited, and that some are downright obscure and unknown from the general collector (I personally discover new ones every weeks). A thread where we compile them to help others in their research would thus be rather helpful in my opinion.
Norman McCormick
27th November 2020, 01:35 PM
Hi,
I'll start http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/advancedsearch
Regards,
Norman.
Athanase
27th November 2020, 01:59 PM
Musée du Quay Branly (Paris) :
http://www.quaibranly.fr/fr/explorer-les-collections/
ACM (Singapour) :
https://www.roots.gov.sg/filter/collectionresearch?category=Weapons%20and%20Access ories&level=1
Athanase
27th November 2020, 02:11 PM
Online collection from several museum from South-West France :
http://www.alienor.org/collections-des-musees/resultat?m=re&q=1679091c5a880faf6fb5e6087eb1b2dc
Kubur
27th November 2020, 02:31 PM
Hi all !
A thread where we compile them to help others in their research would thus be rather helpful in my opinion.
I see you want the Legion d honneur...
:)
Pitt Rivers Museum
http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/weapons/
Albert
27th November 2020, 08:25 PM
The collection site of four Dutch ethnographical museums:
https://collectie.wereldculturen.nl/#/query/424fc719-1ba9-4700-8d7a-e4b3cf4c3938
Luc LEFEBVRE
27th November 2020, 10:25 PM
MEG (Geneva)
https://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/musinfo00.php?what=couteau&dpt=&debut=0&bool=AND
AMNH (NY)
https://anthro.amnh.org/collections
Africa Museum (Tervuren)
https://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/human_sciences/collections/database
British Museum (London)
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/search?keyword=knifeðnic_name=African%20Peoplesðnic_name=Central%20African%20Peoples&view=grid&sort=object_name__asc&page=1
Ethnologisches Museum (Berlin)
http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=RedirectService&sp=Scollection&sp=SfieldValue&sp=0&sp=0&sp=3&sp=Slightbox_3x4&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F
Yvain
28th November 2020, 09:47 AM
Hi Kubur,
Just trying to make our research endeavours easier ;)
Thanks to everyone !
I didn't expect the thread to catch on so quickly and I fear I don't have much to contribute myself after such great suggestions !
I do recommend the Quai Branly (of course), huge collection, but the photographic archives are maybe even more interesting !
The British museum one is also very good with some rare pieces, and is surprisingly not talked about a lot.
The SMB database contains some rare weapons from Cameroon which might be useful to people studying the area.
I will add this portal (German) : https://kulturerbe.niedersachsen.de/start/
The Peabody Museum collections : https://pmem.unix.fas.harvard.edu:8443/peabody/
The American Museum of Natural History (very clear website with a lot of interesting pieces !) : https://anthro.amnh.org/collections
The Welt Museum Wien : https://www.weltmuseumwien.at/en/onlinecollection/
If I think of (or find) more I will add them !
Tim Simmons
28th November 2020, 12:43 PM
https://anthro.amnh.org/collections
Duccio
28th November 2020, 06:02 PM
http://www.museostibbert.it/frontend/index.php
a museum in Florence, with many European weapons and armor, but also an interesting collection of weapons and armor from the Middle East, India and Japan
Jerseyman
29th November 2020, 12:27 AM
Online weapons collections that I use.
The Royal Armouries - a very broad collection including ethnographic weapons.
https://collections.royalarmouries.org/#/objects
The Royal Collection - primarily European, but with a very fine collection of Indian arms and armour.
https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/page/1
The phenomenal Wallace Collection - both European and Oriental/Asian collections.
https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&moduleFunction=search
The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna - seems primarily to have the European weapons digitally catalogued, though the collection has a fair selection of high quality Indo-Persian items.
https://www.khm.at/en/visit/collections/imperial-armoury/selected-masterpieces/
The V&A Museum - unhelpfully a lot of the collection is not yet photographed, but the items are described in detail, and you can request pictures of anything of interest.
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?limit=15&q=weapon&commit=Search&category%5B%5D=THES48992&narrow=1&offset=0&slug=0
The Ashmolean Museum Oxford - search by terms. A broad mix of items.
https://collections.ashmolean.org/collection/search/per_page/100/sort_by/relevance/sort_order/asc
National Museum of Korea - search by terms. Primarily Korean weaponry.
https://www.museum.go.kr/site/eng/relic/search/list
The State Hermitage Museum - a mixed collection of high quality European and Indo-Persian items, with a scattering of ethnographic pieces.
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/woa-search/!ut/p/z1/nZFha8IwEIZ_iz9gJOlqox-PbE1tJ7GLMWu-SHTVFddWdFj275eKA-mwwu7LcfC-z73HIYPekKnsqdjar6Ku7KebMxMsBUBAHhmOcehjDC8ypUAlwQ lF-izANwowMtd-wWdjDAkhgYjCaah-_T0C079_gQwy5L38bvsxt4f1B8p0bvd1dezC_7pNf3bdQq8JPO RPGPg4ZSNfeHxEugIxSSgGMR9GQiyYx_yLoGdJ5kLSmyGlh_Sp yBukqvpQuo_IlqjZdJmq51fnPd_uevf26C6Z_JMc3_vJvlRqtx pu5OQhi7ezppnDZgeDwQ-jIfTo/dz/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/?1dmy=#meta_woa_category_main=Weapons%2C%20Armor&search=Weapons&meta_authoring_template=WOA
Of course the amazing Metropolitan Museum collection.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?q=arms%20and%20armour
Not ethnographic, but perhaps still of interest - the UK National Army Museum.
https://www.nam.ac.uk/collections
kai
29th November 2020, 08:44 AM
Hermitage:
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/woa-search/
Met:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?q=arms%20and%20armour
corrado26
29th November 2020, 10:10 AM
Here the link to the "Historisches Museum Bern/CH" with the famous and very important collection of Henry Moser
https://www.bhm.ch/de/sammlungen/ethnografische-sammlung/
Yvain
13th January 2022, 09:27 PM
Adding the Detroit Institute of Arts to the list : https://www.dia.org/art/collection/dia-collection
Sajen
13th January 2022, 10:27 PM
http://ificah.de/ificah-museum/
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