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Schuver's Sudanese collection of ethnographical objects, botanical specimens and foodstuffs had been sent on 7 July 1883 to his uncle in Amsterdam, who passed them on to the Artis Zoo. At that time the institution still maintained an ethnological department, and Schuver's collection was catalogued there in 1888. After this department was abolished, the objects being transferred in 1911 to the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (The Museum of the Tropics) also located in Amsterdam. [49] In 1947, Leiden's Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (National Museum of Ethnology, the RMV) decided, when the opportunity arose, to purchase over three thousand of the African objects being offered for sale by the Museum of the Tropics.[50] These items were registered as series 2668 in the inventory, and the objects collected by Schuver were scattered among them. | |
