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Hairpin

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Hairpin is made of bone, rod and rounded flat head, circles on rounded flat head, dyed with black colour or burn-in pattern

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Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Fulani
Object type
Haarnadel
Dimensions
L 14 cm
Material/Technique
Bone/leg (animal)
Leg carving
Object genre
jewellery
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2395
Other number(s)
2395 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    where
    Region Adamawa
    Kamerun
    Zentralafrika
    Afrika
  • Change of physical control
    when
    before 1903
    where
    Kamerun
    Zentralafrika
    Afrika
    who
    Houben, Hans - Role not clarified
  • Change of physical control:
    Donation
    when
    1903
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Owners
    Description
    H. Houben donated the object to the Linden Museum.
  • Change of physical control:
    Exchange
    when
    15.12.1971
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners
    Description
    JGU Mainz received object in exchange with Linden-Museum.

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED

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