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Nose jewellery

Data Provider
Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Nose jewellery
Dimensions
Height: 2 cm
Width: 8,5 cm
Depth: 3 cm
Weight: 0,2 kg
Material/Technique
Mother-of-pearl, Pigment
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 39519 a

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1912
    where
    Melanesia
    Northeast New Guinea
    Middle Sepik
    Kararau
    Papua New Guinea
  • Collecting
    who
    Sepik-Expedition (Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss Expedition) - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Sepik Expedition around 1912
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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