Necklace | Photographer: Axel Killian
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Necklace
According to the collector, this necklace made of shell discs and frigate bird feathers contains women's hair. The use of human hair as a raw material is widespread in Micronesia and can be found in particular in jewelry made in Nauru.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Halskette
Dimensions
Breite: 250.0 mm, Länge: 385.0 mm
Material/Technique
Bast fibre
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0836
Provenance and sources
when
before 1900
when
24.04.1900
where
Nauru (location/origin)
Micronesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Provenance
Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Ludwig Kaiser on Nauru on behalf of Eugen and Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) /Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Ludwig Kaiser on Nauru on behalf of Eugen and Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit)
Object no. 165 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 1st consignment April 1900, SAF D.Sm 35/1): "Necklace. Shells". Additional note: "Necklaces no. 161-166 are particularly pretty and delicately worked, the black threads are women's hair." (in: "Bemerkungen zu den Museum zu Freiburg /B. übersandten ethnologischen Gegenständen aus den Marshallinseln. South Seas". SAF D.Sm 35/1).
The objects in the Brandeis collection from Nauru were apparently collected by the local district governor Ludwig Kaiser (SAF C3/241/1).
Due to the processing of human hair, this is a sensitive object.
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