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Arm jewellery

Upper arm band sewn with nassa scrolls and ending in fringes, for men. Text in inv. book: "These winged bracelets were made and traded on the Tami and Siassi Islands" (Erika Sulzmann).

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Data Provider
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Object type
Armschmuck
Material/Technique
Plant fibre, Nassa snail braided
Object genre
jewellery
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 1678
Other number(s)
1678 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    where
    Madang
    Astrolabe Bay
    Papua-Neuguinea
    Neuguinea
    Melanesien
    Ozeanien
    Pazifik
    Description
    Supplement to the location: historical: Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    who
    Krüger, Gustav - Owners
    Description
    Gustav Krüger's father probably received objects from Gustav Bergmann.
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    when
    1888-1904
    where
    Papua-Neuguinea
    Neuguinea
    Melanesien
    Ozeanien
    Pazifik
    who
    Bergmann, Karoline (1864 - 1952) - Owners
    Description
    K. Bergmann acquired the property together with her husband Gustav Bergmann.
  • Change of physical control:
    Donation
    when
    1951
    who
    Krüger, Gustav - Donors
    Description
    Gustav Krüger donated a total of 29 objects to JGU Mainz.

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