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Cap

Main catalogue: "Knitted cap made of domestic cotton directly decorated with beads except for the edge and head. Dark blue lizard pattern on orange-yellow background" Index card "Cylindrical cap with glass beads. The beadwork is made separately and then sewn to the cylinder of the cap with large stitches. The upper edge is reinforced on the inside and outside with a hoop. The outer hoop is covered with green woollen fabric. Pattern: stylised lizard motif. Worked with finite thread and needle. Technique: cap panel blue, green, white arranged in concentric circles. Stitch formation by so-called simple interlacing. (Bühler-Oppenheim, p. 49) Cap edge: Mesh pattern of the interlacing group: Picture of the interlaced stitch B-O, p. 99, fig. 13) Cylinder: alternating "simple interlacing" and "picture of the interlaced stitch" Lit: K. and A. Bühler-Oppenheim "Textilsammlung Ikle-Huber...", Zurich 1948, pp. 94-99"

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
Object type
Cap
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 20,5 x 16,5 x 16,5 cm
Material/Technique
Cotton, Glass bead, Raphia (palm tree), Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 28963

Provenance and sources

when
1900 (um)
where
Cameroon [Land]
Grassland [Region]
who
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)

who
Franz H. Thorbecke (1875-11-08 - 1945-08-12) - Collectors

Description
Transfer from Thorbecke 1909

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