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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Abelam
Object type
Gable wall
Dimensions
Height: 477 cm
Depth: 20 cm
Width: 366 cm
Weight: 652 kg
Height: 650 cm
Width: 660 cm
Depth: 270 cm
Depth: 442 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Rattan (Rotang, Rotan), Leaf sheath (sago), Pigment, Bamboo, Plant fibre , Palm leaf (Pandanus)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 48639

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    September 1966
    where
    Melanesia
    Northeast New Guinea
    Maprik
    Kalabu I
    Papua New Guinea
    who
    Waiwu Urula - Makers
    Abelam
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Gerd Koch 1967
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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