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Rosary

Beads made from fragments of plant roots. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.

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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Rosenkranz
Material/Technique
Root
pierced, Cord, threaded, knotted
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
F 10057

Provenance and sources

when
around 1900

where
Namibia

when
Not clarified
Provenance
Gustav Pahl worked between 1898 and 1908 in "German South-West Africa". He acquired and bought objects during longer business trips, as he reported in letters to Graf von Linden. He did not specify whether he acquired these objects from middlemen or the producers. Text: Christoph Rippe.

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