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Language: Ainu
Language: Ainu

Earrings

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This ear jewellery probably travelled via an important trade route in the Edo period (1603-1868) important trade route from China via Russia to Sakhalin/Hokkaido. It was worn worn by women and men.

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ainu
Object type
ear ornaments
Dimensions
82 x 17 x 54 mm 72 x 15 x 55 mm
Material/Technique
Copper alloy; metal bead;
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 13000
Other number(s)
RJM 1899/01 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    19th century
    where
    Japan
    Asia -> East-Asia -> Japan -> North-Japan -> Hokkaido
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Asia
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Not clarified
    when
    between April and May 1881
    where
    Hokkaido
    who
    Joest, Wilhelm - Former Possessors

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