Africa, Southern Africa, Namibia

This object resembling a corsage object as well as at least one ekori, the leg spirals V 1.405 ff. and possibly also other items of clothing/jewellery from Herero women could have been a gift from the postal inspector (later: Postal Director) Wilhelm Diers from the year 1902. Diers was around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in what was then German South West Africa (stationed in Windhoek). See Bibl. Roemer-Museum shelfmark U 53/75, newspaper cuttings concerning the Roemer Museum, no. 156, 27 September 1902, Postal Inspector Diers donates "quite a number of items of clothing worn by Herero women from German Southwest Africa", including "the strange helmet-like headdress made of leather and headdress made of leather and iron, also necklaces and leg chains made of iron beads and leather", the latter weighing approx. 4.5 kilos. As the objects Diers' inventory book, however, the objects are not identified by name. owner, year of acquisition etc., "unknown" was entered here. was entered here. If the object comes from Wilhelm Diers, it is a gift from gift from 1902 and he is the previous owner. previous owner.

Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim

Exhibited in the Special exhibition "Fashionable heavyweights from Namibia", RPM, 11.02.2020 until 31.01.2021