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Language: Ainu
Language: Ainu

Necklace with pendant

Necklaces with medallion pendants were worn by women at ceremonial ceremonial festivals. Early medallions were made in China and Russia, later Japanese traders also brought some to Hokkaido. In the centre of the medallion is the coat of arms (withsudomoemon) of the Matsumae family, who received Hokkaido as a fiefdom in 1599 from the the Japanese central government, the Shogunate, as a fiefdom. had.

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ainu
Object type
necklaces
Dimensions
285 x 133 x 21 mm
Material/Technique
Copper alloy; silver alloy; hair, animal;
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 51
Other number(s)
RJM 1901/09 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    19th century
    where
    Japan
    Asia -> East-Asia -> Japan -> North-Japan -> Hokkaido
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Asia
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Donation
    when
    1901-20-11
    who
    Theodor Rautenstrauch (1873 - 1907) - Donors
    Source(s)
    Handschriftliche Notiz, Konvolutakte RJM 1901/09
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