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Necklace for a Child

Jewellery piece composed of beads made from wood, glass, and ostrich egg shells, strung on a plant fibre thread. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.

Data Provider
Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
!Kung-San
Object type
Halskette
Dimensions
Length: 12 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Plant fibre, Ostrich egg, Glass cut, pierced, threaded, knotted
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
029439

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Volkmann; 0555a
  • Production
    when
    around 1900 or earlier
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Namibia
Provenance
Volkmann's four collections came to the Linden Museum between 1903 and 1904. As he himself wrote in his letters to Graf von Linden, he acquired the objects himself in situ shortly before or in 1903 and 1904. The majority of the objects originate from the Kalahari region around Sandvelde and Grootfontein. The objects from the Okavango region probably originate from the territory of present-day Botswana, including the area of "King Andara", to whom Volkmann paid a diplomatic visit in 1903. Volkmann does not describe in detail how he acquired the objects, except by using the commonly used word "collecting". Text: Christoph Rippe.

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