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Container for Body and Hair Cosmetic Butter
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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Cultural attribution
San
Object type
Gefäß
Dimensions
Länge: 21 cm, Breite: 8 cm
Material/Technique
Fur, Horn, Leather
cut, sheathed, knotted
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
030186

Provenance and sources

when
around 1900

where
Botswana
Namibia

when
1903
Provenance
Gustav Pahl worked between 1898 and 1908 in "German South-West Africa". He acquired and bought objects during longer business trips, as he reported in letters to Graf von Linden. He did not specify whether he acquired these objects from middlemen or the producers. Text: Christoph Rippe.

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