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corset woman

It is a corset made of ostrich eggshell discs strung on bands of plant fibers. On one side there are 25 rows one below the other, on the other 18 rows one below the other, and the remaining 7 rows in hanging arches. The arches are connected in the middle by leather strips coming from both sides. At regular intervals, the whole thing is supported by vertical double leather strips, which in turn are wrapped in thin leather strips. There are 12 of these support bands in total.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
corsets
Dimensions
General: 40 x 31 x 22 cm
Material/Technique
Leather; ostrich eggshell; plant fibre
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
B03041
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/B03041

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-04.1901
    where
    Namibia
  • Change of physical control:
    Gift
    when
    1901-04
    who
    August Engelbert Wulff - Former Possessors
    August Engelbert Wulff - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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