Hi David ok I will go next week and try to get what I need to prove that this sword was an gift to the museum .
The Sword is not in the Tilburg museum It is in the depot
from Nijmegen Museum that was an part off the University from Nijmegen.
The fathers off Tilburg give the collection that they had to Nijmegen .
http://www.socsci.kun.nl/maw/antropologie/museum/
Het Nijmeegs Volkenkundig Museum, dat zich bevindt op het terrein van de universiteit, herbergt in haar depots diverse collecties etnografica. Behalve haar eigen collectie beheert het museum de Beijens Collectie van de gemeente Nijmegen, de collectie van het voormalig Volkenkundig Missie Museum Tilburg en de collecties van de missie orden der Paters Capucijnen, Augustijnen en Jezuïeten.
Beijens also an collector
Above in Dutch the Collection from the Missie Museum and
the paters Capucijnen Augustijnen en Jezuieten .
But not only the paters did bring stuf in also other people that collect stuf weapons and other things .
it is 6 collections .
Museum Nijmegen Collection
Beijens Collection
Missie Museum collection
Paters Capucijnen
Augustijnen
Jezuieten
(Bill Marsh can translate Dutch better to English than me)
Link to the museum database
http://www.svcn.nl/collectie.asp
we have to be always carefull about what we think or what might be true .
Ben