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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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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
Object type
Cap
Dimensions
Height: 20,5 cm
Depth: 16,5 cm
Width: 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

  • Production
    when
    1900 (um)
    where
    Cameroon
    Grassland
    who
    Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
  • Collecting
    who
    Franz H. Thorbecke (1875-11-08 - 1945-08-12) - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Transfer from Thorbecke 1909
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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