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chest ornament

The chest ornament consists of two semicircular pig tusks connected with plant fibres.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
jewelry worn around the neck or on the upper body
Dimensions
General: 1.3 × 14 × 10.8 cm
Material/Technique
Pig tusk; plant fibre carved; drilled; plaited
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D12491
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D12491

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Papua New Guinea
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
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