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Caterpillar

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Kaúa (Baniwa verwandt)
Object type
Mask suit
Dimensions
Objektmaß: Bastbehang: 66 cm cm (Korpus)
Length: 92 cm
Allgemein: Dm.: 31/36 cm (Korpus)
Material/Technique
Bast
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V B 6013

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Brazil
    Rio Aiary
    Maloka (last) indigenous: house)
    Rio Negro
    who
    Kaúa (Baniwa verwandt)
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Dr Theodor Koch in 1907
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Ethnology

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Legal status metadata
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