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armband

The armband consists large shell rings, threaded with strings of smaller shells. The shells are connected via plant fibre cord. The armband also features a flat woven surface with a tan and black pattern that is bordered with the same type of smaller shells that thread through the larger shell rings.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
bracelets (jewelry)
Dimensions
General: 13 × 8.4 × 10 cm
Material/Technique
Plant fibre; wet snail; mussel shell
carved; plaited
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D09005
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D09005

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1893
    where
    Bogadjim
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Kapitän Rohde - Former Possessors
    Kapitän Rohde - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
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