Okashandja

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Mbira

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ovambo
Object type
Nsansi
Dimensions
Width: 180.0 mm
Height: 55.0 mm
Length: 310.0 mm
Material/Technique
Wood, Metal
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
I/2055

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1870 - 1935
  • Change of legal title:
    Purchase
    when
    02.07.1962
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Namibia (location/origin)
    Africa (location/origin)
    who
    Offe, Hans - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa
Provenance
Purchase by Hans Offe (1884-1982), head of the Reich Colonial Association, 02/07/1962 Offe collected the lamellophone during his stay in the former colony of German South West Africa. The circumstances of its acquisition are unknown.

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