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Mesh pocket

Bag made of plant fibre using the loop technique, two boar tusks and a conus snail are attached to the front, dark linear patterns are attached to the front

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Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Object type
Tasche
Dimensions
14 x 17.5 cm
Material/Technique
Plant fibre, Eberhauer, Conus snail
braided
Object genre
clothing and accessory
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2184
Other number(s)
Linden-Museum: 22123 (Old inventory number)
2184 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    where
    Monumbo Bay
    Papua-Neuguinea
    Neuguinea
    Melanesien
    Ozeanien
    Pazifik
    Description
    Supplement to the location: under German colonial rule: Potsdam harbour
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    where
    Papua-Neuguinea
    Neuguinea
    Melanesien
    Ozeanien
    Pazifik
    who
    Maier, Sebastian - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
  • Change of physical control:
    Exchange
    when
    15.12.1971
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners
    Description
    Came to Mainz "together with 636 other objects in exchange for 732 objects from Pakistan and Afghanistan" (Brandstetter, Hierholzer 2018).

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