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belt

The belt is made of dark brown, braided plant fibres with embroidered yellow plant fibres. The belt is closed, the joint is easily recognisable. There are small pieces of wood and fibres at the ends of the belt.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
belts (costume accessories)
Dimensions
General: 7.8 x 74.5 cm
Material/Technique
Plant fibre
braided
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D13028
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D13028

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections
Secondary literature
Ohnemus, Sylvia: Zur Kultur der Admitalitäts-Insulaner in Melanesien, Basel, 1996

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