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Necklace

Jewellery piece composed of beads made from metal and ostrich egg shells. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.

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Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Halskette
Material/Technique
Ostrich egg, Iron Forged, ground, pierced, Cord, threaded, knotted
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
028056

Provenance and sources

Assignment to a curated holding:
Lübbert; 0538a
Production
when
around 1900 or earlier
Change of physical control or legal title
where
Namibia
Change of physical control
when
1903
Provenance
Dr. Anton Lübbert initially sent the collection to the Ethnological Museum in Berlin on the basis of the so-called Bundesrat resolution of 1889. Before it was forwarded to Stuttgart, Felix von Luschan selected and sorted the material there. In German South-West Africa, Lübbert had objects procured through "his collectors". Only a few months after the outbreak of the Herero-German War, in September 1904, Lübbert wrote to Linden that "it is already almost completely impossible to get Herero items". He had therefore "had the last stocks, which were in the hands of farmers and traders, bought up". Text: Christoph Rippe.

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