Photographer: Thomas Hartmann, JGU Mainz
Attribution 4.0 InternationalPhotographer: Thomas Hartmann, JGU Mainz
Attribution 4.0 InternationalPhotographer: Thomas Hartmann, JGU Mainz
Attribution 4.0 InternationalPhotographer: Thomas Hartmann, JGU Mainz
Attribution 4.0 InternationalJewellery buttons
Stones in different shapes and sizes, geometric patterns on each stone, a) attached to wire wrapped in green plastic and b) attached to red fabric ribbon
- Data Provider
- Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Knopf
- Dimensions
- a: 16 bricks / b: 8 bricks of different sizes
- Material/Technique
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Ivory
Leg carving
- Object genre
- jewellery
- Current location
- Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
- Inventory number
- JGU ES 2910
- Other number(s)
- 2910 (Old inventory number)
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Production
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when
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before 1934
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where
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NamibiaSüdliches AfrikaAfrika
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Change of physical control:
Donation-
when
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1972
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who
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Ethnografische Studiensammlung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz - Owners
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Description
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After Georg Boss's death in 1972, the object remained in the Ethnographic Study Collection as a gift. There are no documents relating to this agreement in the collection files (Brandstetter, Anna-Maria, Kolonialwaren, 2018).
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Change of physical control:
Not clarified-
when
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ca. 1934
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where
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NamibiaSüdliches AfrikaAfrika
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when
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1954
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Description
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Georg Boss gave the object to the Ethnographic Study Collection in 1954, together with 79 other objects, initially as a permanent loan. There are no documents relating to this agreement in the collection files (Brandstetter, Anna-Maria, Kolonialwaren, 2018).
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Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC0 1.0 DEED
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