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Arm jewellery

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Arm jewellery
Dimensions
Height: 5,7 cm
Depth: 5,2 cm
Width: 5,7 cm
Weight: 0,5 kg
Material/Technique
Tortoiseshell, Plant fibre , Pigment
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 38513

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1912
    where
    Melanesia
    Northeast New Guinea
    Middle Sepik
    Timbunke
    Papua New Guinea
  • Collecting
    who
    Roesicke, Adolf - Collectors
    Sepik-Expedition (Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss Expedition)
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Sepik Expedition around 1912
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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