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leg band

The leg band consists of a trapezoidal cord braid with incorporated blue, white and red glass bead ribbons. The jewellery is covered with parinarium putty on both sides. The leg jewellery is damaged.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
anklets
Dimensions
General: 15.5 x 23.8 cm
Material/Technique
Plant fibre; string fencing; parinarium putty; glass bead braided
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D13012
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D13012

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections
Secondary literature
Ohnemus, Sylvia: Zur Kultur der Admitalitäts-Insulaner in Melanesien, Basel, 1996, S. 112

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